Time and Time Again

This is my new obsession.

I bought an old book from the DI titled Time and Time Again.

I stare down at the page and words jump out at me. When you put them all together you get something magical.

Here are just a few of the many...

10/29/13
Dare to Call it Love

I
found
love
and if love were too strong a word, surely any other would not have been strong enough for the emotion
radiated    in all human directions.
loved, in a sort of way
that
threaded the love into    pattern of     behavior

10/30/13

2 yrs

I

wish for

I think

I hope

I

managed to endure it

by some gorgeous miracle

he returned

to whatever fate might be in store

10/30/13

The unthinkable

dreams

banish

in the high drama

The darkest moment came

he

shrugged in answer,

not me. The truth

came unsought

The Times

seemed to have to ransack his memory

found it easy to forget

but at length he replied:

Addressed to me personally,

he must have known it wouldn't do

The thing about poetry is it often doesn't make sense but maybe that is why I like it. Phrases that stand out on a page of a story I have never read can mean so much to me while sounding like a few strung together words to anyone else. It has become my favorite late night stress reliever and if I am not careful can keep me awake much too late.

11/2/13

Late Nights of Freshman Year

good

time to be in college

where they best belonged

already

midnight

a girl; or rather, the girl

she was

engrossed

a chance to 

remember it

with coats and dripping umbrellas,

she was

decided

and continued