No longer shed the tears,
No longer shed the struggle.
You collapse on knees as old as the stones behind you,
That you drag.
Though, your nakedness
Has been something to kiss
For beauty’s sake.Life has stepping stones,
Not weights for shoulders.Love searches for paths in bones,
Calling a ring up to ears that sting.Once I saw you undressed near a lake,
As you crawled beneath the waves,
The boughs above,
As the flood was your tears,
As the most vulnerable doe, to see your utmost fears.Please weaken yourself no longer,
As you find meaning in pain.Once I saw you undressed near a lake,
As tomorrow’s burden comes to shelter you
In its wake.
Poem – “Once I saw you Undressed Near a Lake” – Romance – 4/11/2020
3 responses to “Poem – “Once I saw you Undressed Near a Lake” – Romance – 4/11/2020”
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That place by the lake has given me more sorrow but hope, pain but comfort, mutual respect, hate and love and darkness but light and more sincerity than any place I’ve ever known. Such sacred things and loved ones should not be talked about without getting a full concept of what that place is to an individual
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While I was a child, a lake to me was a representation of sheer loneliness. My first imagining of it, in these days, is when it is nighttime. A lake is so much more limited than an ocean, isn’t it? We can see our reflection in clearer waters, and do not feel so lost. We can hear our voice echo across it.
A lake, when accompanying a forest, is a lovely and enchanting place. Though, it can also be a place where things are so familiar, to be almost fearful.
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Agreed. The ocean speaks to me in ways that I’ve never been spoken to. Almost like a lost lover searching for the ultimate fairy tale story.
It’s a shame that adults are programmed to not believe in such nonsense. However, writers and artists, the creative types still have a yearning for such things. Pretty remarkable how the two different types of brains are wired.
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Modern Romanticism 
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