I Feel Family

28 Feb 2001

Your hope,
gentle and strong
family in your eyes
you entice me.
You speak to me
tell me 
that you feel you’ve known me
forever;
I feel the same.
This is not right,
for your family
must take precedence.
Yet you take me to the edge
tense with sexual energy
and pull me over.
It is not the handsome façade 
the runner’s frame
the hard body
that seduces me.
Rather, it is the strength of your will
the compassion in your soul
the poetry that flows from your mind
the desire for intimacy
     ~ how you’d love to spoon with me in sleep ~
and the love you have for your family.
I feel family
in your soul;
how can I turn away?
Yet, it is my place in this world
to be strong, to be wise
to walk away.
how can you know 
how can you act upon
the need in my eyes
for someone to start listening
to what I need ~
not what I say.


© 2001, Tara Tambolleo