Love Poetry - NOP
No Analysis Needed - January 17, 2003
I had that dream last night
and while I was
trying to wake up
I analyzed it
whether it counted as
THE dream
I wait for
before admitting my
feelings
In fact
I had it several times
several different endings
like playing, "What If?"
or
watching the movie "Clue"
"Now, lets' try ending 3!"
If life could be
that way
I doubt gaining
courage
would be an issue
but I suppose
this is why we dream
It's like how I describe
why I act
"Only the real Kirsten
gets hurt."




No Chance - May 23, 2001
I'm sick
I feel like vomiting
medicine says
it could be an ulcer
my mind says
it's my heart
do I deserve this pain
this disillusion
surely no one deserves this
and yet I feel punished
at best
we will have a long-distance
style relationship
separated by a 10-minute drive
I know she's
trying
to take care of herself
but in doing so
I feel imprisoned
I hope after the trial week
she decides
that she can work things through
but rationale
is telling me
there's no chance in . . .
Tucson




Promise - July 23, 2001
I can't promise you
anything
but love
my arms
and my ears
I can promise
to be there for you
as long as it doesn't
hurt my
soul
but I can't give you everything you need
or want
I can do my best
but I am no dream
I am human
and have all the limitations a human has
I know you can't give me
everything
many times
you exasperate me
many times I want to leave
thinking I'd be better off
in a new place
with a new history
an no one's perceptions
but I'll stay
for I know I'll run out of places
and I'll never find myself
without my past
and we can
keep
the past in the past
but for me that means
talking it through
so it all makes sense
I have few pieces
you have most
you made sense
I'm still lost
if someone else
more willing
shared the story
I'd talk to them
but you're it
and re-thinking it
is going to make me less of a paradise girl
it's going to hurt
both of us
so be it
it's your choice
you have the human
with all her insecurities
and confusion
but who loves you
or you have a dream
girl
who belongs in reverie
for
she has no flaws
she is nothing but air
I don't try to hurt you
I have no malice
for you
but I doubt
and taking makes me more hopeful
brings me truth
heals me
so long as you don't yell at me




Psychic 2 - May 24, 2001
You know that
astrologer
lady
who you always say is
surprisingly accurate
she says that yesterday
and today
are my most romantic
they would have been
had you not done what
you did
I think it would have been good
if this time you did
listen to her
to
stay together through everything
but my thoughts don't have as much
influence
as hers or your counselor's
perhaps that's what's wrong














Never Having to Say You're Sorry -
September 28, 2002
I have many regrets
not telling my boyfriend about the woman I was seeing
not telling her about herself
not telling myself
what had to be admitted
not being emotionally
available to my exes
not working on myself
and being someone else's therapist
when I needed a closer examination
hurting countless people
with my biting honesty
not saying, "yes" when I needed to
and, "no" when I should have
not enforcing boundaries
when they were important
and enforcing them
to create other walls
not calling when I said I would
and not saying what I was thinking when I did
and here I am
once again lonely
though I'd be stupid to say
it's all my fault
for I am only human
my only wish is for someone
to be divine enough
to forgive
and take it from there




The Other Woman - September 28, 2002
why do you haunt me still
when I only knew you
a few weeks
I remember every detail
of every conversation
I remember counting the minutes
until you started work
and crying when you didn't pick me up
what started as a crush
has ended as something else
for what it's worth
and all I can do
is stare across the table from me
and wonder
when and if it will be you
on the other side




Play Toy - May 29, 2001
you're too
used
to
misery
that you can't handle something
great
with me
should I open the cage and set you
free
so that you will have
complete
time
to
yourself
alone
with your misery
or should I stay here
with my
misery
waiting for you to need
consoling
should I completely cut you
off
would it tell you how much I
don't
need
this
how much I have
elected
to go through this
for
you
for us
I still don't think I deserve this
bullshit
your
lack of consideration
on my birthday
your lack of wanting to try
you just throw things away when they aren't the best
because
"working is too hard"
perhaps I should never have met you
never
have fallen
but
dearie
what's keeping me here
you agreed to a week off
and said on Saturday
it's too early to see me
but took me to dinner on Sunday
throwing a tidbit
to
a
dog
is that all I am to you?




Psychic - May 23, 2001
Remember that dream I had
where you came by
and gave me back something
and then walked away
it happened
I told you I have premonitions
you gave me my heart back
I didn't want it
but you gave it
and then you conveniently
went to work
will I see you tomorrow
as you said
I don't have it in writing
so I don't have a guarantee
pity that
you're right
you have no timing















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