Fabulous Women
I’ve met them, those fabulous women, working on their quest
All beautiful, all wonderful and dressed to look their best
We’re all such good people and gentle in this context
But we move on disappointed, resignedly to the nextThey look at me carefully and I watch them sift and weigh
They measure everything, every movement and word I say
Their body language speaks and quietly it tells me all
They lean back but often times, it’s I not they who fallsI see the masks and barriers, that they hold up before
As I pull them down, somewhat roughly, and I ask to, please, see more
Why am I so impatient, so quick to find their core?
Most are happy on the ocean, I’m so hungry for the shoreThey need to feel safe, and trust takes time, that’s clear
Brick by brick we build trust, to replace barriers and fear
Trust is calm predictability and it’s not chaotic change
There’s a responsibility to open, to teach and to arrangeI find that barriers often cause, more barriers to be raised
Or we lower and raise them, out of sync instead of phased
We advance and then retreat, hurt with every misread signal-bruise
This relationship between us, is always both of ours to loseAuthenticity is what we seek, and that better version of ourselves
We can bravely play in the jungle, or observe from barren shelves
Of course, sometimes we’ll get hurt, and sometimes we will fall
But better to have tried and failed, than never to have ventured at all
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Written by thus.i.wrote
November 28, 2016 at 10:57 am
Tagged with barriers, communication, creative writing, Falling in Love, Love, Relationships, trust, woman
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Interesting poem! 🙂 very enjoyable
WovenEclipse
December 8, 2016 at 11:25 pm
Thanks
thus.i.wrote
January 9, 2017 at 2:39 pm