TRIP TO ELTHAM PALACE POEM 14

Sometimes something is out of your reach. You reach and reach and reach, as a child to get to the cupboard, which contains your desires. You cannot reach it, no. So this happens sometimes and you reach and reach and reach, still. It is beguiling to think that you will reach it one day and sometimes you do!

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"I'm a genie in a bottle, you gotta rub me the right way." Christian Aguilera

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We are separate but we are co-mingled,

And I can still feel you,

Taste you,

Smell the Sahara in your touch,

As you penetrated my soul.

I did not catch you and trap you in a

Bottle – that was my big mistake,

Fumbling over our relationship,

I forgot the bung,

And released you.

To trap you was not difficult,

To ensnare you with my whiles was

Instant.

But you evaporated with the articles

And papers that kept you,

And not a lost cause I survived it,

But still have the aftertaste in my mouth:

Bitter and sweet it completed me.

“If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.” Henry Thoreau