Charlotte Rauner’s most recent poem to appear here was Dazzle me snow (July 2011).
When I watch as you walk
By Charlotte Rauner
By Charlotte Rauner
When I watch as you walk
centimeters away, I stumble upon
the words you blindly spoke
and the ones I barely listened to.
And I imagine, how does she dream,
with her cloudless head?
But what does it really matter to me.
She tickles me, when she utters
her words of pity. She amuses me
with her image of class,
and she disappoints me
when she uses and borrows
the clouds I live under.
Perhaps the smallest idea could be
when I think of her and her horror,
her dream, thought carefully and planned exactly
shows her with wings, flying
and me barely picking my feet
off the ground.
I give her credit for making me
see the possible hope in her,
but as I watch her sink with
judgments, I feel myself
rise and fly above her.
