Pondered the Outcomes

[bicyclingfish]

Pondered the Outcomes

I swallowed deeply and followed your perfume
Attitude in the air was weight in the room
A permanent scar that hid my face away
Travelling at night I don't see the light of day

Music was the dancer and photographic was your style
My eyes followed you around mile after mile
When you caught me I was disappearing
Running away from the dread that in my life was nearing

In a hall in a town not far from home
I found you that night dancing all alone
As you leered at the people in this skin gallery
I pondered the outcomes and questioned your salary

"Dance with me" was all I could think
You rested at the bar and sipped at a drink
Scribble numbers with a pen but made a mess of ink
Into my doldrums I felt myself sink

Reaching to me you said "Lets dance"
Holding your hand I gave it a chance
Circumstance suddenly yanked at my arm
My other lover came in and I left your charm

So I moved with her and thought of you
So I talked with them and laughed with you
So I drifted home and wanted you
You at the end of this romance turned blue

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weight
light
photographic
disappearing
gallery

This poem is in response to one of Foray's poetry excersizes.

 

[foray]

Great try, bicyclingfish

As you leered at the people in this skin gallery

So I moved with her and thought of you
So I talked with them and laughed with you

I like the wistfulness of this.


foray

 

[Blue_Angel]

I found you that night dancing all alone
As you leered at the people in this skin gallery
I pondered the outcomes and questioned your salary

what's the exercise? (is it from the site you posted, fors?)

 

[foray]

Yes, I posted it in oliveu2cm's thread, I believe.

foray

 

[The Wanderer]

So I moved with her and thought of you
So I talked with them and laughed with you
So I drifted home and wanted you

great to see you around again.

 

[Blue_Angel]

yes I saw it thank you fors
my stupid mouth always acts before anything else does