Maura Gage

 

Spilling Shadows

Blue stars skate through sky
and into my dreams of you
as the long lonely night stretches on
without the music of you,
without the sugar of you,
and the moon's tears of rain
bring me no solace.
Colors come and go, deep violet night,
wild blue smile in the moon's face,
spilling shadows over the emptiness
you left me to hold.

 

After He Says He's Not in
Love, I Tell Him...


My body desires to dance with yours;
my heart wishes for yours
to match it's rhythm.
My eyes imagine meeting
the electricity of yours.
My spirit fails and dies,
for you want only a partial-connection
where it gets left behind.

 

Cruel Man

Cruel man, you lured me in so close, I burned.
I'm stuck alone because you were false.
My heart opened, let you in, then closed.

My heart wrestles with itself and gets off rhythm.
How I wanted it all to work out with you.
Cruel man, you lured me in so close, I burned.

Your fire, my fire, we start to sizzle.
Once again, I find, after years of marriage, I'm alone.
My heart opened, let you in, then closed.

How I gave, how I struggled, how I tried
to make you happy and make it work.
Cruel man, you lured me in so close, I burned.

You ignored my efforts and went out with others--
nothing decent in you, you betrayed my love.
My heart opened, let you in, then closed.

Heart-raper, mean man, you act as if you're
not responsible for your own choices; you blame everyone else.
Cruel man, you lured me in so close, I burned.

My heart opened, let you in, then closed.

 

Those City Lights

She wore diamond earrings and bright red lipstick.
Her head was cut, her dress had torn.
She wandered towards city lights.

She wandered towards city lights.
Her hair was dark; her skin was pale.
She wore diamond earrings and bright red lipstick.

The pearl necklace she'd had on was missing.
She wanted sleep so badly.
She wandered towards city lights.

Dusk crept across her world.
Dusk crept into her heart.
She wore diamond earrings and bright red lipstick.

Finally, she slept.
Even in her dreams,
she wandered towards city lights.

The lights called her from her hilltop view
and into the valley so bright.
She wore diamond earrings and bright red lipstick.

She wandered towards city lights.




maura gage

 

     Maura Gage is an Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University at Eunice. She is also editor of The Louisiana Review. She has lived all over--Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, South Carolina, and, for the past four years, in Louisiana in a small town just a few exits west of Lafayette. She is a big fan of www.the-hold.com.

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