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[tidus_rox]

Ok, so I wrote this poem so I am going to share it with you. And then after that, I am going to write it again, but beside every line I will put the meaning.

Here we go:

Palpitations surging
pulsating through your brain
Penetrating your thoughts
pestimistically, your hopes are high

Hopes are high, but courage at a record low
You swoop down, ready to take the prize
But what prize is to be won?
Don't jump the gun

Why, creator do I think this way?
Do not think highly of myself you say
I do, I do, I do.
We have grown together like ivy to a wall

The day is coming
it creeps so furtively
Palpitations surging
Pulsating through your brain

Why, when shall I do this?
It is neither good nor bad
It is neither right nor wrong
Tell me creator, what you think

Now it is here.
So I lure with the bait
I lure with hope, with love
I feel a bite

I decided not to ignore it, but shouldn't I?
We know not its ethical properties
We only assume
We only judge.

Palpitations surging
Pulsating through your brain
We return to solitude
A complicated metaphor

Creator, it is coming
Help me, aid me through
I know you love me
I vie to make it two

I almost let it go
But I yank it by the arm
Quite literally, in fact
And I stare fear, love, lust in the eye

Creator, guide me.
Place your supple words in my mouth
Place your hand on me,
As I do

And there it goes, in a moments time
It's over, it's done - is that all?
I did it, I aspired and accomplished
Only to find myself with a paper and pen.


OK SO THAT'S IT! Now for why I wrote it/what it means.

So basically, its about someone falling in love with someone else, then trying to make them love them back. Everyother stanza is talking to God, or whoever he sees as the higher power.




Palpitations surging
pulsating through your brain
Penetrating your thoughts (This means he loves him but he is really nervous to tell him so)
pestimistically, your hopes are high (despite his nervousness, he believes the guy will love him back)

Hopes are high, but courage at a record low (He doesn't want to tell him even though he thinks it will go his way)
You swoop down, ready to take the prize
But what prize is to be won?
Don't jump the gun (don't take things too quickly)

Why, creator do I think this way? (Why am I gay, basically)
Do not think highly of myself you say
I do, I do, I do.
We have grown together like ivy to a wall (This could be reffering to either his lover or God, however you want to look at it.)

The day is coming (The day that he has planned to tell his love his feelings)
it creeps so furtively
Palpitations surging (reminder that he is nervous)
Pulsating through your brain

Why, when shall I do this? (when will he tell him?)
It is neither good nor bad ("It" is reffering to homosexuality)
It is neither right nor wrong
Tell me creator, what you think (He knows what everyone else thinks, but he wants to know what God thinks)

Now it is here. (The day is here, where he tells his love)
So I lure with the bait (He takes him out for lunch, buys his things, so he is figuratively "luring" his love)
I lure with hope, with love
I feel a bite (So here, he thinks that all of his money-spending has made the guy love hiim back.)

I decided not to ignore it, but shouldn't I? (He doesn't ignore his homosexuality to pretend he is straight, but now he is reconsidering that.)
We know not its ethical properties
We only assume
We only judge.

Palpitations surging
Pulsating through your brain
We return to solitude ("Solitude" reffers to school. They are not together there.)
A complicated metaphor (complicated because it says school is solitude. There are tons of people at school, yet they are not together, so they consider it "solitude".)

Creator, it is coming (The time in which he tells his love his feelings)
Help me, aid me through
I know you love me
I vie to make it two

I almost let it go (He almost chickens out)
But I yank it by the arm
Quite literally, in fact (As the guy is walking away, he tugs him by the arm)
And I stare fear, love, lust in the eye

Creator, guide me.
Place your supple words in my mouth (He wants God to tell him what to say)
Place your hand on me,
As I do (He is asking God to touch him, as he is touching his love)

And there it goes, in a moments time (So he told his feelings to his love, and is now waiting for an answer.)
It's over, it's done - is that all?
I did it, I aspired and accomplished
Only to find myself with a paper and pen. (This is an ambiguous ending... The way I take it is... The guy said that he does not love him back, so now he wrote this poem about it... but other people say that the guy does love him back... so its all opinion)



Tell me what you think!!!!

[Polaris]

I don't know... sometimes it seems a little pushe, like some meanings are impossible to see

Now it is here. (The day is here, where he tells his love)

How would we know it?

Also we'd need a lot of context to know that it was about homossexuality! It's a great poem but I think you tried to hide things too much