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Discussion in 'Poetry' started by BhumiBabe, Dec 5, 2018.

  1. BhumiBabe

    BhumiBabe Platinum IL'ite

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    The choice

    Should I be here
    Or should I leave?
    It’s hard to tell
    Who needs this more

    If you tell me straight
    I’ll let you heal, I'll let you grow
    And reach your potential
    All on your own

    But its not clear to me
    Whether I am your strength
    Or if I am only the fantasy
    That's clouding your path

    I love you far too much
    To lock you in my selfish heart
    If only I knew
    If I should be here
    Or if I should let you go
     
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  2. Lalithambigai

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    Awwwwww @BhumiBabe another gem of a poem from you :number_one:

    Noone can bear (like the Earth which happens to be your name too) or bare (their feelings) like you do. Hats Off :worship2:

    If that came out like a mini poem in itself, that's only bcause I am responding to you :) I so wish I get to buy the first copy of your book and see your interview live on telly. Go Girl :thumbup:
     
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    Dear @BhumiBabe
    Crisp and beautiful poem....
    Sometimes it’s confusing isn’t it..
    Stay back or move on, the choice is difficult
     
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    Highway rest stop in rural America. Desi immigrant dad taking 6 year old daughter to the rest room. He is reluctant to let her go in on her own --- all the internet stories about lurking perverts is on his mind. Daughter does not want him to come into the rest room, lest he is seen as a perv' by some other woman in there. And put her to eternal, everlasting shame. The poem's first stanza puts the daddy's dilemma in such succinct terms... "should he be there... or should he go back to the car and wait?"

    The dad hesitates, and wonders ... "should he wait just outside the rest room door... or" nonchalantly be loitering in the foyer where the maps are pinned to the walls. He is nervous; however, he lets her go.

    It is his training ground. Eventually she'd leave the nest. He has to endure.... and enjoy it for her.
    Whether it is a car, or poetry, what people see in it, i.e. people's mileage, varies. ;)
     
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    Haha, people see what they want to and how they want to see, guess same applies to the selective hearing:smile:
     
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    Good one ......
     
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