http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/veil Just another bbPress community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 12:11:28 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/veil#post-55945 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:56:01 +0000 Britannicus 55945@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <strong>Veil</strong><br /> <br /> Stagnant emotion –<br /> That’s what pushes <br /> this unyielding pen,<br /> while your parabola of intransigency,<br /> this unwillingness to feel,<br /> only fuels it along.<br /> The moon draws near to the horizon –<br /> its asomatous life highlighting this<br /> thistly landscape.<br /> Quietly, <br /> my mind swims in<br /> the dreams of conversations from a<br /> long-dead fantasy.<br /> Neither friends nor lovers,<br /> our hearts still resounded with understanding,<br /> flooding the senses with a desire to believe.<br /> I wonder –<br /> What does one say to the apoptotic soul,<br /> those no longer prepared to see?<br /> But this painful wishing, this longing to<br /> escape into these veil-guarded worlds,<br /> only smothers my own lingering vitality.<br /> After all,<br /> you were never real.