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Tag / staggering

May 31, 2017 by ebbtide

no grace in wanting

  • Poetry
  • desire, distance, frustration, grace, life, poem, Poetry, staggering, unrequited, wanting, writing
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there is no grace
in true wanting –

it staggers,

and refuses
to be written –

its divinity locked
in the eyes

that yours decline
ever to meet

© Sarah Whiteley

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