Addiction
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The uncaring night will take me
And oppress me with its heat.
Leave me wide-eyed
and sleepless
In a tangle of tortured sheets.
.
Since you became my addiction
I have wanted no one else.
Only to see you dance before me
I have longed for nothing else.
.
The over-bright dawn will find me
And burden me with its hope.
Leave me confused and restless
Tied up tightly in my own rope.
.
Since you became my addiction
I have wanted no one else.
Only to see you dance before me
I have longed for nothing else.
.
The relentless day will trap me
And unsight me with its glare.
Leave me wandering and helpless
Your distance has stripped me bare.
.
Since you became my addiction
I have wanted no one else.
Only to see you dance before me
I have longed for nothing else.
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© 2009 the author writing as Romantic Dominant
Past readers of this blog will recognise one of my favourite poems. I wrote it eleven years ago in strange circumstances.
Posted again because sometimes one becomes addicted …
Art by Rainer Auger
A Faded Romantic's Notebook 
Romina
May 28, 2020 at 5:50 am
Certainly one of my favourites x
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Romantic Dominant
May 28, 2020 at 6:52 am
I’m glad. Smiles. Thank you.
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Daughter of Light
May 28, 2020 at 9:13 am
Thank you! 🙏🏾😊🌹 Since I’m a new reader, would you retell the strange circumstances behind your writing this piece?
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Romantic Dominant
May 28, 2020 at 12:39 pm
I never told them in the first place. And probably never will. Truth is sometimes much stranger than fiction. Smiles.
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Daughter of Light
May 28, 2020 at 7:09 pm
I’m a stranger on the internet who believes in the strange stranger with strange things to tell 😆 I’d love to hear this story, if you think I’m strange enough to tell… 😏 hmmm?
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Romantic Dominant
May 28, 2020 at 10:11 pm
It is a private story and I am a private man. Smiles.
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Daughter of Light
May 28, 2020 at 10:15 pm
My private intention is meant. Smiles.
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Daughter of Light
June 1, 2020 at 5:24 pm
Some of my best soulful conversations have been with strangers 😘🌹
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Romantic Dominant
June 1, 2020 at 5:29 pm
Indeed it is so.
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In mind and out
May 28, 2020 at 9:47 am
This resonates. Sometimes our desire for someone can become like an addiction. I once had a friend tell me so, and desert me also because she saw my ‘addiction’ to a particular person as destructive and I refused to let it go… I still hurt about that, perhaps because she was right, and I lost a friendship within it. Sorry, that’s probably too much information, but this idea of love as an addiction is a wound for me.
Your poem, as always is beautiful. You use rhyme and repetition in a way that carries rhythm and emphasis. Like a rumination. Like an addiction.
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Romantic Dominant
May 28, 2020 at 12:38 pm
I am glad it resonated – though perhaps not in such a good way. And there can never be too much information. And thank you. Your praise is appreciated.
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In mind and out
May 29, 2020 at 8:18 am
Do you think love can be like an addiction, where the euphoria of it is sought despite… destructive elements? You don’t have to answer that, but i am curious what you think.
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Romantic Dominant
May 29, 2020 at 10:16 am
I don’t know. We are all so different and love means so many different things, and has so many different shades. And there is adoration, lust and infatuation to consider too. I do know that we hunger for intimacy, for passion, for respect, for validation, for closeness. And that when we find the pure essence in any of those guises we want to keep the feeling, the emotion, the wonder, at all costs. Even if it costs us ourselves.
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In mind and out
May 29, 2020 at 11:30 am
I completely agree – “we hunger for intimacy, for passion, for respect, for validation, for closeness.” And listed like that… it makes me realise partly why I like your poetry so much, because the kind of love/adoration/lust/infatuation you describe incorporates all of those layers.
And yes, sometimes we are willing to pay any cost. And sometimes it’s worth it.
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Romantic Dominant
May 29, 2020 at 12:24 pm
Sometimes we are indeed. Smiles.
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