(i spotted a rose in rodin's garden, and the eiffel tower was looking. paris 2002)

i just thought of a poem that i wrote many years ago in 1998. it might have been the first poem that i wrote. tonight, i remembered this poem and felt something uneasy...

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Shy Love

Ever wonder
What it feels like
Restraining gushes of a waterfall?

That kind of melancholy
So delirious
Ever so intolerable
Like holding words so desparately from your lover

Eyes met
Lips sealed
Let the friendly embrace bear with the shy love
In our hearts