A Professional Distance

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A Professional Distance

I wanted to give you
something you could value
you could have caught it
in my eyes
given proper time
but these eyes are mine
you cannot capture
What is forbidden?
Would it have been unique?
Had I kissed your cheek?
What could come of that? (I laugh)
wave good-bye
you're gone the chapter ends
and wish
I had sealed it with a kiss.



1989

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TheLastCowboy commented on A Professional Distance

03-23-2014

I love the passion and desire you capture in this poem, you mix it all together with a bit of regret-sheer genius!!! Great write!

blueberry commented on A Professional Distance

01-20-2010

A very cute poem that anyone who lost love or is in a long distance relationship, can relate to.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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