To Be Completely Known And All Forgiven Poem by Adeline Foster
To Be Completely Known And All Forgiven
~ To Be Completely Known And All Forgiven
What lavish gifts you do bestow;
With pride my eyes are all aswim.
These tokens say you love me so;
Beside that gift these gifts grow dim.
You hasten to pull out the chair,
Incline your head in secret awe
Of pleasure knowing I am there,
Oblivious of the ones who saw.
You stoop to clear away the plate-
Despising not the helpful task.
In short you are the perfect mate:
What more could any ingrate ask?
I smile and know yet feel the pin
Of conscience prick my quivering shame.
I dropp my eyes lest there within
You'll see the thing I dare not name-
The tattered, timeworn, fragile moth
That fears yet beats against the flame,
The insecure and childish self
That surface words cannot explain.
I'd give each jewel - each shining stone,
Relinquish this grand mansion fine
To live in a much humbler home
If you but knew this wish of mine:
To take the thoughts I dare to dream,
And lay them out before your eyes,
And know I'll not lose your esteem,
And know that you will not despise
The wanderings of my burdened heart,
And not call foolish, foolish fears,
And not tear foolish dreams apart,
And let me shed the unshed tears;
To bare the secret self within
In your safe understanding arms;
To share the person that I am
And know you'll keep me from all harms.
Lovely Adeline - I guess we all have secret dreams and wishes which we would prefer to keep to ourselves. Great poem, so well written of course.
You are clearly a very accomplished poet, a pleasure to read. I shall be back!
Usually I try to write my comments in prose like you and rhyme. Then the few like you whom share for free the wisdom of the times....iip And from me, I thank your kind.
You have managed, within a single poem, to pinpoint what so many people suppress. There is beauty, in your honesty. Thank you for sharing. Xx
This - I do believe - is exactly what we humans spend our lives seeking, whether realized or not; beautiful poetry!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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I think all people secretly want to express their inner selves and confide in someone, to let all the masks, all the fairytale looks, all the harsh and stern faces and just be themselves and for someone to believe in them and love them for who they are. Very nicely express poem with good rhythm, flow and verse and you know the greatest feeling you can have is to love and be loved in equal measure. Let the blood of your heart be the ink of your pen :)