Shoulders
I remember staring
past your shoulder.
I remember reading to you
the lines you have now left
in another's sand.
I read your words as
some acknowledgement,
acknowledgement of its past
though our shoulders
were always in the way.
I apologise for this.
My miss-spellings are
my way of saying sorry.
words and foto T Carroll
Cynthia Buell Thomas
Mon 25th Aug 2014 16:04
You certainly introduce some odd twists that are usually elusive; like the 'miss-spellings' which I think is a metaphor, but I'm not sure. I'm thinking this poem deals with the really awful situation where two persons are always looking over the shoulder of the other, for the next 'better thing'. Or not.