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to an empty chair

to an empty chair

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can i even tell you why?

is it not more incredibly fundamental than
anything else?
is it not that i want you like i want life –
unabashedly and without reserve.
without any sort of consciousness, with a hungry
desire that drives me constantly.
with something heady and wild.

i see in you what i want to be in me.
you are what i cannot be. what i hope to be.
unabashedly yourself, yourself and strong.
and i want to understand, understand and
take this in.

you are incredibly alone, and incredibly surrounded.
alone in fate. alone in strength of purpose, in strength of spirit.

and maybe i write too much weight onto your shoulders, but
maybe i write too much weight onto mine.

so this is why, i am discovering, i want to puzzle you out. what made you 
this way? what will make me this way?
can i trace this to its beginnings and steal these ways of
being for myself?

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Written by: sarahjrjr on July 15, 2010.
July 15, 2010careers Post Under Poetry - Comments
  • http://foolishnessofthings.blogspot.com Aniket

    “i see in you what i want to be in me.” defines attraction in its most honest form for me.
    I loved the juxtaposition of the character description in the piece.

  • http://lyricsandmaladies.blogspot.com/ joaquin

    “heady and wild” – indeed – like this.

    the passion of this is amazing – not just regarding the mystery, but plunging into it.

    i suppose, in one way or the other, we all try to “steal these ways of being” for ourselves, striving towards whatever it is we want to become – so while it is introspective, there is something universal about it. and the title adds a fantastic layer to the metaphor. well done!

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