The One: A Love Poem of Yearning
What does it mean to find the One? You probably know the feeling: the elation you feel when you finally find "the one." After all, this is the one you think could be with forever. This is the one you have dreamed about, wrote about in your journal, sometimes only to find that the person you desire is out of reach for any number of reasons. There's a good chance we have all been there at least once, but it doesn't make it any less painful when it doesn't work out the way we want or imagine.
Ultimately, you wonder why you ever found them in the first place because finding them is like some cruel joke that has been played on you. And you loose. You get over it, but you usually remember it as that bitter/sweet kind of pain for a long while.
The One: A Poem of Yearning
I pull tight my cloak of invisibility,
Drawing on my mantle of secrecy
As I watch you enter - no saunter - lazily into the room.
So sure, so alluring - the One.
Your smile draws me. Your eyes drown me. Your heartbeat owns me.
You make me know the nature of a magnet... or a moth. Yet, I draw back and silently, slyly even,
Watch you take your place.
A singularity; a lone bright object in the darkest sky, like the moon at Midnight.
So unreachable,
So untouchable,
But so loved, this One.
© Cynthia Turner, 2011

© 2013 Cynthia B Turner
Comments
You really captured that feeling of wanting that which you cannot have. It happens almost everywhere and everyday to find that perfect thing you wished to have but can't have. Awesome thought!! Love is so much so.
Awesome, so clever and witty. Not only can the reader feel it, but you can visualize it too. Voted up!
This one is brilliant and I vote up,across and share all around.
Eddy.
A certain someone came to mind when reading this, I know the feeling well. They are just there out of touching reach, and it hurts like hell! wonderful poem, voted up! nell
Wow, painfully intense write. You are an amazing poet!
Voted up ++++ and sharing
Bless you, Faith Reaper
So beautiful, Cyndi. We all have passed through this phase and you emote with words just so well.
Up and beautiful.
Wow 'I pull tight my cloak of invisibility, Drawing on my mantle of secrecy'
2 powerful lines here starting your poem.
Loved this, felt the pain and sadness
Voted up and awesome. Romantically wonderful. Loved this.
This is so passionate and beautiful. It conveys a message that so many, no doubt have experienced. It is painful I am sure to want someone so much yet be unable to achieve securing the goal.
....Drawing on my mantle of secrecy...... WoW!
The feeling in so few words is truly amazing. I feel the pain in my heart just reading and remembering. Outch! But oh how wonderful.
Ah yes - I remember being bathed in such feelings. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind going there again:) Voted and sharing and thanks.
The first two lines of this poem are beautiful. Talk about a dynamite beginning. Well done!
This is very beautiful and describes a feeling I am sure that so many others can relate to.
You have done it very passionately. Enjoyed reading it and its quite true may be in many lives. Take care and enjoy the memory ....even that is rare pleasure to be alone with for a while. God bless
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