Hijack My Heart

From an insomniac, with love

23rd May
2011
written by Sulthana

You tease with whispers that caress
my eyelids but not quite
kiss them close

Please don’t dance out of my reach tonight

How I need you to envelope me now,
and send me to the land
of unremembered dreams

My eyes seek to seal but you
do not let me drift to the
sweet ether of you

Please don’t dance out of my reach tonight

Tis late in the night and the comfort
of my bed calls for you,
pleads for you

Take my crowded restless head on
your lap and sing me softly
to a secret nirvana

Oh why must you desert me
at this hour of want,
nay this hour of need

Please don’t dance out of my reach tonight

My mind will be quenched and stilled
by naught but the honey pot
of your being

Do come, drop me some
nectarous charm
on these burning eyes

Soothe the head that
begins to ache
with its longing for you

Please don’t dance out of my reach tonight

Instead sway me softly, pull
me close until I fall
gently into you

Please don’t dance out of my reach tonight

 

Performed at the Ilford Library Open Mic Night on 19.05.11
Shared at One Shot Wednesday.

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Poetry

12 Comments

  1. Martin
    23/05/2011

    This is so excellent because of its ambiguity : )

  2. Moondustwriter
    24/05/2011

    This is one of those poems I could never read too much
    I love the tension and longing in your words
    Thanks for sharing with One Shot I’m sure those who heard at the Open Mic loved it

  3. brian
    24/05/2011

    lovely…almost a lullaby in and of itself…nice yearning, i felt it in your words…hope the sand man comes a knocking…

  4. Elizabeth Young
    25/05/2011

    Beautiful poem that expresses well the desperate need of a human heart for communion with another. Wonderfully expressed…

  5. Andy
    25/05/2011

    Ah…the beauty of sleep when it comes.
    I love “Do come, drop me some
    nectarous charm
    on these burning eyes”.

    I would have loved to have heard this at the Open Mic. Do you have a recording of it?

    Excellent piece!

    Thanks for sharing.

  6. Victoria
    25/05/2011

    Very nice poetry. I liked the repetition of the refrain that played almost like a lullaby.

  7. Poetical Psyche
    25/05/2011

    I enjoyed the flow, from start to finish. The repetition of Please don’t dance out of my reach tonight, created a very nice sense of framework. Beautiful word choice. Thanks for sharing

  8. Raivenne
    27/05/2011

    “…Instead sway me softly, pull
    me close until I fall
    gently into you

    Please don’t dance out of my reach tonight”

    Oh the plea in that alone! Beautiful!

    Rai
    http://wp.me/pPury-g5

  9. Sulthana
    30/05/2011

    Thank you all for your wonderful words, glad the poem touched you in the ways it has.

    I enjoyed particularly trying to keep it slightly ambiguous ;)

  10. Poets United
    04/06/2011

    As Poets United reaches its first anniversary this coming week we want to thank you for your support. Over the past year we have grown to 250 members plus and are steadily growing. Poets United is proud to have you as one of our members and look forward to another successful year. You imagination, creativity and willingness to share with us is what makes our community such a wonderful place. Thank you for beautiful poetry and thank you for being a part of Poets United.

  11. Sulthana
    05/06/2011

    Aww thank you Poets United and happy anniversary and thank you for providing such a valuable service building a community of poets :)

  12. Sayf Hussain (moe)
    19/11/2011

    “Instead sway me softly, pull
    Me close until I fall
    Gently into you”

    Loved every line. Powerful poem.

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