For Whom This Poem?

Words wrought
Only for the images
Caused in the self
Called you,
Where writer
Cradles reader
As mother tends her child
And selfless watches
Reader grow.

Or

For pure self indulgence
Of words formed
In the pleasure
Of the pen,
Where writer
Carves the meaning
As close to likeness
As their inner kin,
No matter what the shape of it.

Or

In earthly paradox
Where self bridges
Selfishness to selfless gene,
And floats indifferent
Mid way between,
Unswayed by argument,
Just joyful
In creativity’s
Spontaneous emergence.

In Your Smile

As you drove away
You looked over your shoulder
And smiled

And though there were ten steps
Of tarmac and the screen
Between us

I felt loved

And took your warm gift
As if you’d put it securely
In the palm of my hand.

© Ben Truesdale and distilledvoice, 2015