Sunday, 18 February 2024

One Poem by Donald Edwards

 



Cold Water

 

Cold water flows clean in the darkness hidden from the sun

Through time hollowed rock under the world of superficial life,

Carrying subterranean bodies blind and alien

Through the unmappable maze of beneath.   

 

I have endured the revelation in the middle of the night.

I understand the darkness suddenly becoming light

As I see you sitting giddy at the table with your friends

Bouncing excited and pulling back as the conversation rises and falls.

What am I to do with this social situation?

How can I enter into this exclusive flirtation?

 

I stop your eye and become your subject for a moment.

This is as close to perfection as I have ever been.

Could I withstand the commentary of the Chosen?

Would they think I am worthy of sharing their scene?

 

To manage expectations, are you owned?  Is that your price —

The many faceted ornament on your hand?

Are you property secured by that allotropic band?

Can you walk at will or do you go with the land?

 

I need to know this is more than a dream.

I need to know what you will do

If I kneel to tell you who I am

And what I would like to be for you.

 

I may not contradict you, correct you, or instruct you — else the magic will cease to be.

I can only follow and support you without question and with unsecured desire.

You are the one — you sailed by on a splendid sea

As I watched you circle the mist laden horizon

And enter for a moment the world that I try to understand.

 

Don Edwards lives and writes in Los Angeles. He has published five books of poetry. 

 


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