EDC Writing – Believing Sight Unseen
Eric Daniel Clarke – Scientist now writing – odd lines, poems even…
I look yet can not see
I listen yet can not hear
I feel yet sense nothing
from you in return.
My demons tell me you’re
not real, how else can I
explain your indifference
your avoidance of me.
I’d no expectations save
you lived up to who you
say you are. I know, you
know, I am a fool.
I’ve become a little lost on here
not being the man I am
to those who know and need me.
I’ve been distant, distracted
passive, as if waiting for something
to happen in my life, this isn’t me.
I’ve woken up now, can’t keep
waiting for a future I have no
say in, impossible to make real.
You live for today not tomorrow
I make you feel good, it’s only here
you want me, this reality for you.
Missed her, not that
not that they’re close
not like that, remote.
Missed her, not sure
not too sure she’s real
not sure he is who he is.
Calls, one way
nothing by return.
Messages, exchanged
replies ease, slip away.
Smiles, says ‘Hello’
reset, go again.
Her slight, his consequence… misaddressed words.
All sophistication
beautiful most all say
why him, she’s smiling
he has his ways…
She said I like you
here beside me. I
guess not above,
below, behind her.
She said you’ll need
to love yourself to
love me. I guess
he never did.
It isn’t over till it isn’t
he’ll go out tomorrow
it’ll rain today she said
looking out the window
it hasn’t yet, it will.
Words, uncommon
foreplay, a mind
had her, she him
toss, heads, she wins.
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Touch, touched up
photograph, duel spin
walk, turn distant
shoot, he missed.
The nature of our online world, as real, you remember people, however distant, they’re here in some way – a review by L Owen who blogged until a few years ago:
Easy reading short quirky poems about life and relationships
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2020 by L Owen (Amazon UK)
‘Easy reading but very thought provoking. Eric has a marvellous way of writing one thing but possibly meaning something else entirely. What exactly? That’s for you to decide, to interpret in your own way and that dear reader is the joy of poetry. From a poets point of view… I thoroughly enjoyed this collection.’
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‘From a poets point of view…’ – a review I made in 2016:
![Debutantes and Daisies: A Bouquet of Poetry by [Louisa Owen]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51msvSvtrVL.jpg)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 May 2016 by EDC Writing (Amazon UK)
