<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448697" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shelia Loves Deeply</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I want you to tell me that you need me-<br>is that so hard? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I want you to see me and not turn away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I carve sometimes even a gentle glance<br>or better <br>a soft touch and softer voice saying<br>'are you ok? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Rejection cuts like a dull knife<br>and kindness is a hurtful stranger<br>when not freely given and often<br>even if a substitute <br>for love<br>abandoned</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seeing you retreat inward<br>crushes my soul<br>and make me feel weak-<br>to weak to make it stop-<br>too weak to reach out-<br>and draw you out-<br>to weak to even cry sometimes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No greater pain<br>than the pain of feeling unloved; <br>no greater din<br>than the din of silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No arm shorter than<br>the one which one <br>which wants to reach out<br>but is always too short from the lover in retreat<br>no hand ghostlier than the one which reaches out just after you have turned away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So sex even is spiritless<br>yet it is better than<br>the cigarettes and beer<br>haze in which I sometimes find you<br>at three am TV snowing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Worse, for any woman<br>or any man<br>beyond even all this<br>is the unmistakable sense<br>that you long for that something else<br>foraging with your eyes<br>to some stranger passer-by; <br>and I cannot re-direct<br>those longing looks<br>back my way<br>intoning in my soul; <br>'Don't you see<br>I am the one who loves you.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the ghost ship<br>drifting upon the dead sea<br>and yet<br>curse me for the time being-<br>I'd rather drift in this maelstrom<br>with you<br>than anyone else; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so deep is my love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448697" data-title="Shelia Loves Deeply de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="I want you to tell me that you need me- is that so hard? I want you to see me and not turn away. I carve sometimes even a gentle glance or better a soft touch and softer voice saying 'are you ok? ' Rejection cuts like a dull knife and kindne..."></div> </div> </div>

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