I waited for you to exist.
now with time served
I will not waste,
my life is shaped
all else erased
by man
who once I cursed .
I wrote you down as earth,
projections made you black as night,
now revoked,
once judgement judged
all innocent
of anothers crimes.
You took me to your soul
and gave me the world
that I couldn't create
in solitary, lonely states,
where I reached for love
but none sustained me.
I was afraid without your voice,
now a part of you that leads me in
to warmth, weight,
touch and taste,
till unshaven,
drawn against my skin,
you kissed till I was soothed.
About Me
- Elizabeth Manuel
- Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Born Elizabeth Maiden, one of four children, I have written poetry since the age of fourteen, although it didn't occur to me till recently to save or share the things I wrote as I never imagined as a young adult that I I would ever want to share my deepest thoughts with anyone. Now I keep my poems as a sort of shorthand diary of key moments from my life. My hope is that other 'poets' might derive some pleasure and comfort from mutual recognition of feeling expressed here.
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