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Friday, 24 October 2014

A poem about unrequited love by David Tombale: Heartbeat

This is another poem about unrequited love.

Heartbeat

There is a rhythm to her heartbeat,
a melody that makes a whisper in my ear
that resounds like echoes across the wide
blue yonder of our love, and I exist in
the spaces that other faces have hollowed out
and they I think might have loved her too,
once in silence and once in rage but nothing’s
left but pain.

I wish she’d write me,
I wish she’d live inside my heart
like thoughts I leave unspoken so
someday I’d leave them out to
run around the yard like our children,
with my eyes and her lovely smile,
I see them often, but have nothing to
content myself with this lonely night.

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