Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

Inexorable Want

Inexorable Want



How do I find
These sentences 
Written as they are
In ephemeral ink
Indelible lines
Inscribed in my being 

Spectral yearnings

It crashes me
To rocks
In unanswerable waves
Swimming tidal
To the inexorable
Yet
The implacable distance
Confounds me

Longing vent me no more
In twists and turns
And unmade beds
Where crumpled kisses
Dream on hot soaked cushions 
Leave me not
To the ever restless
Fumblings
Quiet unheard of whisperings
Of her name

How do I find
The collective alphabetic
Of love unknown
Yet
Divulged by these
The screeching banshees 
Of petal falling
Corpuscle red
They flow through my blood
Unbidden
Unwarranted
Unwanted
And so desperate

How do they find me
On such a precarious brink
With the voltage
And permission of electricity
Rapine in all my singularity
Hurricane she batters at me
For all my will to resist
I am
Weak

I cannot

Help me please
Lest I drown dark
Brooding in forever’s need
She is my quiet
And ever sun set calmed
Sea
And I
I am a tempest
Left to bellow and blow
Inside an hour glass
In the confines of my soul

Help me please
Save me from this void ripping
As she shreds every day
Every hour
With my unrequited returning
To her arms

Save me

For I have found
My life
My soul companion
So far from me
On some so strange a horizon
That the distance
Between us
Could prove to be
My
Undoing

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Colin Mitchell Williams February 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM If there were the slightest possibility of going.... I would be gone already.... :) ....

Michael Jordan February 11, 2009 at 6:41 AM Colin I reckon I would agree with the rest - Bridge that gap bro and make her yours - God Bless, MJ

Kristin Reynolds February 11, 2009 at 2:52 AM Dude, would you just go get her already? The longing within this write is too much for ME, how can you stand it??? Go. now. are you there yet? GO! lol love, Kristin

Laurie Ginn February 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM Egads man cross the oceans, the seven seas the mountains the deserts....haven't you heard that old song, Ain't No Mountain High Enough? Tragically beautiful write. I love it, going in my favs. Laurie

Sharon Winter February 10, 2009 at 12:02 PM The longing is so powerful, this just makes me scream inside - you must be with your love and now! Your words make it seem as though you are being ripped apart bit by bit so painfully, by the absence, the non-fulfillment of a destiny you know must be! I'm coming undone just reading this! Too many great verses, just overflowing with brilliance and energy. Love it. Love, Shar