© Lee Bullitt, 2015

Great Lake

Lee Bullitt
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

This everyday kind of life
step by step
One moment at a time.

At once I feel so much for them, for there,
for what’s just beyond my eyes
but disconnected. I’m far removed from
you, from
them, from
here.

My eyes water at that thought of nothing,
at the look of you, the way the silk strap slips from
your shoulder constantly.
My face turns away from you, my torso
twists and twists, it follows the wind away from
my peers and their gaze and their sways.
They are like a great lake
disguised as a pretty boring ocean.
Transparent.

But you know me so well…
How did it happen?
One day did you wake to know that,
that this everyday life is heartbreaking
is beautiful
is moving
is unrecognizable to me.
That what clouds the mirror each morning,
a lithe figure of tan flesh,
is not at all what I asked for or what I expect?
That monotony kills me, that kindness disorients me.

But when we kiss, and I feel your lips
turn upward into a smile
and your left ear
bathed in your black hair,
and your right ear, exposed, lifts up..
I am happy with
this everyday kind of life.

Poets Unlimited

Six Years of poetry-only publishing, PoetsUnlimited was a diverse, engaging and authentic poetry magazine. For most of that time a daily publication, it was always diverse and original, and free-to-read by all.

Lee Bullitt

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Writer & Visual Artist from New York, NY ~ Contributor for Poets Unlimited and P.S. I Love You ~ [All photos and words are by me] ~ www.leebullitt.com

Poets Unlimited

Six Years of poetry-only publishing, PoetsUnlimited was a diverse, engaging and authentic poetry magazine. For most of that time a daily publication, it was always diverse and original, and free-to-read by all.

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