I waited.
I waited by the window. I waited by the door. I waited at a cafe table with a bottle of wine and I watched for a sign. I waited. On the fire escape, leaned over the rail. Watched till night fell, the streets cleared and a hollow wind tangled through the trees. I waited. I watched the sun rise and fall, the moon wax and wane... The seasons would change and yet no change in me. I waited and those thoughts of you would not leave. I waited for a step on the stair, a knock on the door, a word in my ear. I waited. Smoked a cigarette on the fire escape flicking ashes through the rails between my feet watching the embers fall to the sidewalk and burn out. And I waited for these feelings to fade away like the end of a long hot day, the way a cool night breeze comes through the window tickles my neck inviting me out for a midnight walk I waited for a word, a touch, a something... but nothing. I waited till I could not even remember what it was I wanted and why I had never bothered to ask before I waited. So I waited. Charity 2013
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Passing in passages
Spinning in Circles Sifting through smiles Who has and who will Smiling she climbs Up to your window sill Leaning in laughing With so little warning Brushing your lips In a happy good morning Touching your cheek While saying she loves you Tilting to tell just how much She thinks of you Kissing your forehead And slipping away Again out the window To start a new day Charity Old poem about a friend of mine, our fire escapes used to lead to each others apartments :). I like it In my mind you are
Crystallized Frozen in time and idealized Brilliant and Revolutionary Like the day you walked away. The weather changed you Loss estranged you And you put away your boots and leather For a suit and sweater... But in my mind you're Crystallized Frozen in time and idealized As exquisite and unruly As the day I walked away. Charity Joy You didn’t see me in the light
nor in the night did you? you did not see me from a distance you did not recognize me at all… did you not see me passing like a shadow through the trees did you not see me gliding like a ghost along the breeze did you not see my reflection in the glass as I did pass like a sigh from a thought of yours to a breath of mine ~ did you not know me ageless and eternal touch my hand and feel the energy that burns beneath my skin did you not notice the stars watching us through the window when we met and the moon curious as it peered at us wondering if we would remember or forget And did you or did you not remember that as we travel through life we unravel the mystery of our souls the mystery we hold ~ where we come from where we go did you not see me did you not know that I exist just the way you did within the place in between the seen and unseen and it was your smile that brought me back once more to this track of reality I needed to exist to be human one time more to see you touch you again feel the heat of your skin against my skin even when you did not see me clearly know me or remember that there ever was ever a we in between earth and the eternal ever present existence so far beyond this track of reality. Charity Janisse |
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