Approach

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Approach

Poem by Joseph Simmons

I approach you
with a tremor
then I nod, and
then you smile.
We know we've never
known each other.
We hesitate,
we pause a while.
Thoughts of danger,
sharp rejection,
bad selection,
raise our fears,
yet the haunting
loneliness,
the emptiness
is worse to face.
We dance with
our faces,
our voices,
our looks.
We hide in
social graces,
hide all traces,
our secret books.
We are dancing
with our spirits,
we are playing
flicker flames,
tasting fire:
dare we stir it?
risk our bodies,
risk our names?
What will
we want of us--
what will
become of this?

Joseph Simmons contact: titmouse@hotmail.com
Copyright 1998 Joseph J. Simmons
Reviews and comments requested
Posted 10/25/2000

LEAVING

Poem by D. K

After you've been my friend
for almost five years
you have to go and leave me now
leave me with my tears

you're such a great friend
and i'll miss you very much
please promise that we'll always write
and that we'll never lose touch

i wish that you didn't have to go
because everything was fun with you here
but now that you're leaving me behind
there's more in life i have to fear

please come back and visit me sometimes
and never say goodbye
because we aren't losing our friendship
and we're still looking up at the same sky

just because you're leaving
to go to a different country
it doesn't mean that we can't be friends any more
so please please don't forget me

D. K., contact: forgotten_nights@hotmail.com
Copyright 2000 D. K.
Reviews and comments requested
Posted 10/25/2000