I Would Go Away With You
I Would Go Away With You
I would go away with you
as the sun sets from orange
to red
like a cooling ember.
Night opens its many eyes.
Still I think I would follow
even if we went through
woods
blue-grey and chill
as shadows in nighttime clouds
and silent too.
I am drawn
by the still sound of your footsteps
light as dust, irrevocable
as the stars.
Our places are set.
You look at me
sure as ever,
holding out one hand
like a cool fire,
the only kind that lasts.
A Little About the Poem
I'm not the first one who has expressed some frustration with the Hubpages platform for publishing poetry. Line breaks and line spacing are very important in poems, and effect the whole feel of the piece, but Hubpages won't let the writer control these elements.
Well, anyway, this is a poem about my relationship with God, and I was trying to play with the ideas of light/ dark and hot/cold in relationships, turn those ideas on their heads as it were. Dark and cool are usually negative when characterizing closeness, and light and warm positive, so I was trying to show intimacy with cool and dark images, rather than the more common opposite.
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