Let Me Pretend

How can I ache with desire as such,

On nights I turn my mind off?

Not now, not on a night so calm—

I can’t handle it—not tonight.

I can’t think of you at this moment,

My thoughts are needed elsewhere,

I cannot afford to sit, wondering…

What it would be like.

I can’t waste time asking what if,

When I know we live separate lives.

Passion is needed elsewhere,

These thoughts must not survive—

Please not now, on a night so calm—

I can’t handle it—not tonight.

Don’t pull me back in

When I don’t have the time.

I know who I am, and who I’m not;

Tonight is not for make-believe,

Tonight there will be no fight.

    DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com 

Greatness

Greatness
Your hands, cold, remind me of the terror I’ve felt—

And you, so beautiful in all your youth, sit before me,

Tears of happiness in your eyes, a smile on your mouth.

My lovely, never let us ever drift apart;

Please do mind my heart.

Run away, run away with me as we leave our lives behind—

For reality has not been kind, let us forge a new path

And release the deathly grip that holds us back.

My lovely, I fear we drift apart,

I feel it within my heart.

We could stay awake beneath the stars on summer nights,

Whisper secrets—forgotten dreams, worlds gone by.

If you would someday relinquish that deathly grip,

My lovely, I believe we remain apart

And it hurts, deep within my heart.

DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com

Tears in the Night

Beautiful girl with tears in the night,

Reaching out with a hopeful hand.

Happiness portrayed with smiles, forced—

And passion hidden upon her lips.

Filled with desire but not able to live—

Caught will the illness true love brings,

An empty heart and her love spilled.

She speaks with an empty voice,

For her body is bound to break.

Sadness taints a timeless beauty—

A beauty the world will never know.

Fragility her curse, her laugh her blessing,

Simplicity is her only wish—

To live her life the best she can.

In the darkness, all alone,

Her hands quiver, cursed by fear—

Chest rises and falls with heavy breathing

Her last thoughts to be lost forever,

Her heart left for her alone,

As she sits fearful through the night.

     DannYetman

www.yetmanpoetry.blogspot.com