[stylist] Sharing a poem

[Brad Dunsé]

Kyle,

There's more of the poetic kind to give 
appropriate feedback here, but I liked the 
tension here. A sense of having made a mistake 
and now it's "damned if you do and  damned if you 
don't."  I'm assuming steam is a lover who 
betrayed the "I," in the poem? No matter, I like 
the metaphor, simple yet complex when you think of it. Nice.

brad

On 1/23/2012  07:39 PM Kyle woodard said...
>Hello I would like to share one of my poems with you all. Originally I was
>going to share my most recent poem that deals with blindness but I stumbled
>across this poem I had forgotten about and should probably include in my
>book. So I am sharing this one with you instead thanks.
>
>Steam
>by Wallace Kyle Woodard
>
>Oh Steam you vile seductress you who are supposed to represent love romance
>and passion.
>
>How you are a fraud neither air nor water, pretending to be what you are
>not.
>
>You temptress, who is not liquid nor Gas,
>
>How do you expect me to react when you come to me telling me that you are
>air knowing I am afraid of flight,
>
>Then tell me you are  water knowing I once drowned in your depths?
>
>How can you, steam tell me that you love me and wish to remain in your
>water state knowing I cannot swim,
>
>Yet this whole time you have been posing as air?
>
>How can you tell me that it is air I need to breath,
>
>Yet you maintain your watery form and  appearance?
>
>You say if I come to you, you will love me like no other as you always
>have,
>
>Yet I end up alone standing in a puddle in the frigid air.
>
>How can you be one or the other now that you have been joined so
>completely?
>
>Why couldn’t you have just patiently remained water while calling to the
>oceans to let them know your desires?
>
>Oh vile steam you must be one or the other, no longer can you traipse about
>as both.
>
>Yet in your very nature it is too late to go back you can no longer revert
>to your previous state.
>
>And yet if you go forward you betray your true self.
>
>How can you say you love me after all this time?
>
>Steam oh you foolish steam.
>
>
>--
>Wallace Kyle Woodard IV
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