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Underneath the exit signFriday afternoon
Contributed by
catapult57
on
Sunday, 7th February 2010 @ 08:29:53 PM in AEST
Topic:
LovePoetry
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Underneath the exit sign
Friday afternoon
her blue eyes meeting my
innocuous questions,
her laughter sputters
and she slides a
lock of hair behind
her porcelain ear.
She is forceful with
demons behind desks
as they play paperwork games
with our common fate.
I give my assent to
all that administrators ask,
then conspire to move
the wheel my way.
Her earliest kindness
I mistrusted, thinking
it could not be just
for me. I courted her
with creativity and
lesson plans and colored pens.
And on a day in
summer, I smiled to
her across the bobbing
heads of silent students;
and knew that I
had reached a place
where her indifference,
if it came,
would softly,
surely
break my heart.
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Re: Underneath the exit signFriday afternoon
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by northernlights on
Monday, 8th February 2010 @ 06:55:01 AM AEST
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| what a great piece of detailed reality and powerful ending.....if it came would softly surely break my heart, had my attention fully then the last verse i just melted well written |
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Re: Underneath the exit signFriday afternoon
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by zedwards on
Monday, 8th February 2010 @ 07:43:45 AM AEST
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Really love the last line "and knew that I had reached a place where her indifference, if it came would softly surely break my heart."
Very well written |
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