Let The Rain Wash Away Questions

March 09, 2012

Today at Real Toads Marian's writing challenge was Love & Affection. For inspiration she had a video by Joan Armatrading aptly named Love & Affection. The song inspired what I wrote, but after I completed it another song started playing in my head.

The rain washes

away questions

for a few moments.

It doesn’t matter

if it is right or wrong

to be wrapped in your arms.

We don’t have

to answer to anyone

while our music plays.

There are strumming

guitar strings playing

along my body.

I am the instrument

and your fingers

know the chords.

Our lips meet

to sing our lust

with a kiss.

I am not sure

if we are writing

a love song

Or if we are

writing the music

of our goodbye.

I am lost in feeling

and I don’t

even care to ask.

©Susie Clevenger

This is the song that played in my head when I finished the poem.

Love & Affection ~ Real Toads

Comments

Fireblossom said…

I love Adele!

March 10, 2012 at 4:37 AM

Brendan said…

I think poets have an ESP when it comes to songs on the radio, hearing the insides of the tune; what you sing back here is so essential to the yearning Armatrading expressed. Nothing really else matters inside that embrace, as if even sense itself didn't have a place there. This reminds me so much of poem I once wrote about Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," remembering a lover I dumped long ago so casually. If you care to: http://tinyurl.com/6vtllcq

March 10, 2012 at 4:44 AM

Scarlet said…

I love the song by Adele ~ Thanks for posting ~

This is melancholy write..just being in the moment, and not even asking why or what ~

Lovely ~

March 10, 2012 at 8:03 AM

Marian said…

whoosh, sometimes it's like that, isn't it?
i didn't know that adele song, thanks for turning me on to it. :)

March 10, 2012 at 8:31 AM

hedgewitch said…

We don’t have
to answer to anyone
while our music plays.

Loved that phrase, Susie--perfectly captures the bittersweet undertones of your message here. Also loved the Adele cover of the old Dylan tune--Billy Joel did a nice version of it also.

March 10, 2012 at 9:48 AM

Sherry Blue Sky said…

Wow, Susie, "I'm not sure if we are writing a love song or if we are writing the music of our goodbye." Such a powerful line. Beautifully done.

March 10, 2012 at 10:13 AM

Adura Ojo said…

Love both songs and I love your poem, Susie.

My favourite lines:

I am not sure
if we are writing
a love song

Or if we are
writing the music
of our goodbye.

I also often have songs playing in my head when I'm writing. Hope you have a lovely weekend.

March 10, 2012 at 11:07 AM

Brian Miller said…

oo la la...this has some heat to it susie...strumming the chords...just wanting to feel in the moment and not caring about tomorrow...def an evocative piece susie...

March 10, 2012 at 10:38 PM

Herotomost said…

I'm a huge fan of the love song and romantic poetry when it gets right down to intricacies of the emotion felt in any stage of a relationship. Makes it very human...like you did here. You killed this one...hell yeah.

March 11, 2012 at 10:30 AM