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Rainbows and Sunshine
by Alisa Jsand what of all that sniveling
lurking beneath that well placed smile
stuffed deep inside a most convenient cough
each time
that out stretched hand
finds itself
politely extended.
what if I told you I could hear the minutia,
understood the coded context
of each deliberate word uttered
when you thought no one was paying attention
to the details.
don't you know
it's always in the details
he went to such great lengths
to say she didn't really care,
yet, it's been at least twenty five years
if a day.
to the man with the weekly lunch date
scribbled on his planner
in something meaner than a pencil
coming around, regardless.
I've seen his type before
watched from a distance
listened intently.
blinded by the details
he thought he'd left behind,
without a clue
there are always clues
as for me
I'd rather know love,
real love.
love without limits
an all encompassing love
for a lifetime.
rainbows and sunshine,
his and mine...
07/16/2009 Posted on 07/17/2009
Copyright © 2025 Alisa Js
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Soulo Jacob Bourgeau on 07/17/09 at 07:09 AM There's layers of history, it seems, here. Yet I do not need to peel them off to see the wisdom and your message. A hint that idealistic romance is obtainable? In any fine art, the viewer's conclusions are less important than the grin of the painter who knows she has stirred ideas in the minds of her audience. Nice job, AJ. |
| Posted by Maude Curtis on 07/17/09 at 02:27 PM I've seen the rain now I'm waiting patiently for the sun to come out so I can see the rainbow. |
| Posted by Clara Mae Gregory on 07/18/09 at 06:52 PM I loved how you expressed this, especially the poem's conclusion, which contains an element of ambiguity. For it sounds like a relationship that you want to be in, except for the fact there's still baggage attached to this other person,your love interest, a detractor to your having rainbows and sunshine as a couple....but it also suggests that you want for both of you to find this special happiness with the implication that it might not be you that is the one that completes the other and wallowing in rainbows and sunshine yet it is your desire that it be so. Maybe I am being too over-analytical, but that is what I see in this poem. I enjoyed reading this-thanks for sharing, Alisa |
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