SOUL FOOLS
All I ever wanted was to do was to make love to your mind, with my words and with my body.
If ever you feigned to stay, instead you chose me to stray.
I am forced to cease fixing you between the lines. It is plain to see how I chose to colour you blind.
I came to find no vantage point, promising you what cannot bind.
All I ever wanted was for you to dare to see me.
All you ever did was to take flight in a safer somebody.
Erasing me, in pursuit of a safer me.
I found myself walking out of your soul, while you upheld your vision of being whole.
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Diana Ursula Rieck
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SOUL FOOLS
PoetryThe poem Soul Fools expresses a yearning for a profound connection with a partner, one that transcends physicality to reach a deeper, intellectual, and emotional intimacy. However, it speaks to an unfulfilled desire, as the speaker's partner retreat...
