Conjoined

By leftwriter, 3rd Sep 2010 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/u-8e4b1w/
Posted in Wikinut>Writing>Poetry

Expressing the strength and metaphysical nature of the twin bond.

Conjoined

We were not you or I

until in rending agonies

our split apart souls found separate flesh,

infinite awareness gave way to mortal memory,

I forgot part myself.

But living in the liquid depths of your eyes

is the other half of me

and I half-recall the embryonic oneness an eternity ago

when we were the same soul.

Now

we breathe as far apart as miles and a heartbeat

as your blood courses my veins

and you think my thoughts,

and sometimes, smothered in the weight of darkness,

the tears I feel are yours.

Beyond love, past kinship,

what I feel for you is self.

Not affection - recognition makes me tell you that I need you,

umbilically tethered as we live our mirrored lives

until our severed souls join seamlessly again.

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leftwriter
Leftwriter is a poet and flash fiction writer with some published articles under her belt and who occasionally dabbles in other forms of writing as well. She currently lives with her children and dog in Cricket Hollow, Ohio.