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'aloof?' timothy rg, 5/06/2008

aloof?
pensive, yes
but, aloof?
never more than the wait
anticipation of her beloved's return
she prays,
'please, break through to me,
even as the troops did
at Normandy,
but please not like Hiroshima.'
the Bomb does make us aloof,
just that someone dare used it;
makes one more than pensive,
aloof
or, even, dare day, demure.
voices in the night
'not a dream,' is whispered
aloof?
on the horizon her beloved appears
runs to tackle and be tackled
eighteen months of hugs in these lovers,
he wasn't walking
collateral damage, no legs.
together they wait,
she in his lap
he holding the chair wheel's with clinched fists,
whispering,
'please let this dream break through,'
too.