THE UNIVERSE (critically acclaimed poem)

 

THE UNIVERSE

I’ve travelled across these lands

Never hand in hand with you!

I’ve sailed the seven seas

Never happily

And you were never there!

Rolled along the roller coaster

Dipped and dived

And survived

But you were never there!

You sure weren’t man enough!

You just swaggered your stuff!

Flounced off in a huff

I’ve been to the moon

Oh the blue, blue moon

With so much room

Room enough for two

But you were never there

You wanted the earth

I just wanted, needed you without the mirth

Not the huge wide girth

But you were just never there

Why cannot you see!

You just are not happy

But you just won’t let me be

But you were never really, really here

I’ve been to the stars

Carried in the famous cars

Driven in those famous cars

Chauffeured?

You opened doors for me

Yet you really were not there!

The wind blowing in these sails

Yet you dragged your heels like a snail

I looked back and you were gone

Gone, gone, gone

You were not really here or there

I didn’t want to change anything about you!

Just needed you here

But you changed all the way through

Distant, so distant

Just like the millions

Trillions

Of stars in the sky

Yet you never shone, shone so bright

A distant murky star

A shadowy figurine

Trying to figure which way to go best

Lest ……………..

I let you forget

Or never forget

That you were not here

In this Universe

© Teresa Helen Joseph-Nelson

5^th November 2014

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