Something
You have that face
That look
Is there something you want to tell me?
I know when you are pretending
I know when your smile doesn't meet your eyes
Maybe no one else will suspect a thing
You always have the right thing to say
But there is an underlying current
I can feel it
There is just something about a sad heart beating!
Really
I can take it
Is there something you want to tell me?
Just say it, don't worry about me breaking
I feel the shift
I am sure I am not mistaken
You are not living anymore
I see you skillfully going through the motions
Disguising your sad with perfect clothes
Holding onto small insignificant meanings
Not like when your laughter was better than breathing
I don't want you to be trapped by my forever
Is there something you want to tell me?
Is there someone whom you feel fully completes you?
Does he understand you the way that I used to?
I can't shake it
This underlying feeling
That you are just here and going through the motions
Unwilling to share your true emotions
I remember
I was there
When you were fully you
Not half hearted and melancholy blue
You moved with a perfect kinda easy grace
That happy seems to have vanished without a trace
Damn girl, you were so amazing
I miss how we occupied our own special space
Please, yes it is really okay
I need to hear what you have to say
Is there something you want to tell me?
Written June 29, 2015.
By: Richard Lamoureux
Mostly free verse but morphing to rhymes.
For Judy Konos's contest.
Fictional write with just a bit of truth from long ago.
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