300 Tons of Steel Won't Change my Love for You [Poem]

I have no reason to lie to you
My memories are emblems of kisses that you gave me
My soul, a bovine husk, a silenced snitch
The deafening sound of your memory
Vexes me, and leaves me feverish
For your warm, callow grin
Another maddening kiss is all I need
Before I sip the maddening kiss of the wind
As I walk into the moonlight of an incoming train.

I've always been a clumsy daydreamer
I walked into you, didn't I?

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[PoetLina]

Superb! (That makes your poem up to 300 letters, somewhat different from tons of steel, but the effect is the same) :-)

[EllyMcCormack]

@PoetLina Thank you for checking out my video. It's good to hear from you! Not sure what you meant about the 300 letters though lol

[seekthevisceral]

Every day, I think, 'All I need is one more maddening poem.'

Beautiful words and delivery!

[EllyMcCormack]

@seekthevisceral Thank you so much for the kind words!

[tinySpectacle]

Excellent poem, Elly. So many incredible moments in here that make me jealous, but none more so than "clumsy daydreamer." It's the little unexpected two word combinations like that that really do so much. I look to do them in my poems all the time: you have beaten me to this one, damn it, it won't happen again! Thanks for the mention above and for the nice comment, too.

[EllyMcCormack]

@tinySpectacle Thank you so much for the kind words! I loved your work. It's nice being in this online poetry community... I think it's definitely a movement of its own.

[occupypoet]

Excellent. 

[hartsel2000]

Nice stuff Elly!

[PoetLina]

@EllyMcCormack Your poem from the first "I" to the last contains 294 letters (just recounted, it could be 292 (oh, well...). Anyway, excuse for another lol

[janeczka]

A very fine job. What I like the most are the third line and the "maddening kiss" image. Brilliant.

[twohawksfucking]

@DavidRandallCurtis Ah hem... I heard that! (My thanks, David.)