What It’s Like To Love An Introvert
You are a heady cocktail of contradictions
an anomaly
a dark horse treading softly
though it has the legs to run
Your intensity disarms me
Those eyes
gentle
kind
sad
arrogant
Look my way
and I exist
Look my way
won’t you?
Some days you are distant
Even as we lie together
your thoughts are chariot clouds
carrying you away
There is a part of you always out of reach
a glowing treasure buried
deep beneath skin and blood and scull
If I split your head open
how many diamonds would spill out?
You want space
I want to devour you whole
I wish you could belong to me
instead of solely to yourself
Your calmness is unbearable
I want to shake you
We are on a sailboat with no wind
How much effort would it take
to open your mouth
blow some air out
breathe us back to life
But there are days
when you do open your mouth
and the stars pour out
Then we lie on our backs
and press our cheeks against the moon
as I try to map the secrets
in your mind
-Michaela Chung-
Michaela this is awesome !!! Well done 🙂
Thank you! xo
Michaela! Simply amazing!
Thank you!
I got goosebumps. so beautiful. awweee <3
Thanks Emmy! 🙂
This is so beautiful.
Thank you. <3
I used to write a lot more poetry than I do now, this makes me want to start again.
You should! And feel free to share it here. 😉
This just kinda came to me today, the weather was great (which for me is overcast and a little cool and breezy, just comforting) with the crisp leaves blowing around listening to Colbie Callait, it just all worked. Hope you all like it.
You are the treasure that I want
Your essence, your being, they give me hope
Your smile, those eyes, that heart
They all are what I wish to breathe
Oxygen cannot hold a flame to you
Food does not fill me like you do
Money does not make me as prosperous
And lust isn’t near as pleasurable
The material does not satisfy my greed
The waters of this Earth do not satisfy my thirst
Sunlight does not illuminate the path
No, none of them do as you
As natural as they are, and beautiful
There is not one of them that is you
Not one of them close enough to you
That I would prefer life with over you
I am utterly and inexorably in love
There is no stopping it, there never will be
Forever you have the key to my heart and soul
Forever I am yours and yours alone
In the night I wake, your eyes
They glazed over me as I slept
You smiled and watched my breaths
Kissed me once I was woke
The midnight oil burned, then
And so you sang me back to sleep
Melodic, slow and calm
Perfectly until I was back at rest
When morning struck, you hand
It caressed my body intently
Searching for me, for my composition
Which you never fail to find
And then they ask me how this can be
That I love you more than nature itself
I answer, “Does nature gently take me from sleep?
Does it bring me back there? Does it hold me?
Of course not! It thunderously booms me awake
It keeps me there all night
When it does take me to sleep
The rain serves only to warn of soon to come
So it holds
That your smile is my illumination
That your eyes are the gateway to infinity
That your heart holds the beat of our union
You are the one I love
And when I am away, it is you
You that I will take with me, in my heart
For you have what nature never will, eternity.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Nicholas. 🙂
Very good, beautiful and pensive.
These lines are really incredible:
“Then we lie on our backs
and press our cheeks against the moon
as I try to map the secrets
in your mind”
Applause!
Thanks Patrik. A humble bow. 😉
This is wonderful Michaela!
Thank you! xxo
I used to write rhymes
My mind is like a canvas
Of watercolours
Perfectly cluttered
I would tell you about it
But it’s buried, like Atlantis
J/k I sensed empty chatter
On the horizon
So at the onset,
I had to vanish
Like precious treasure
Forced conversation
Is way too much pressure
Unless it pertains
To my passions
Then it’s my pleasure..
I’ll begin rambling
Fumbling over syllables
Excited, but it’s no accident
Science would call me an Intj
I could turn on the charisma
And blow extroverts away
But on the average day
I ponder much
And often have little to say
I’m an enigma of sorts
I love that is how I was made
Just be patient with us
We’ll open up one day!
Thanks for sharing that Deron!
A poem worthy of the Bard himself, William Shakespeare, and penetrating in its emotion and sublime accuracy of the introvert
Aww thanks Andrew.
Beautiful poetry
from beautiful Michaela
Thank you for both,
Krzysztof
Thank you! 🙂
Beautiful Michaela! Thank you for sharing your words with us.
You’re welcome, Bryan! 🙂
This is perfect…. somehow it sounds to me like extroverts do feel this way “i wish you could belong to me instead of solely to yourself”.
michaela, you are the soul of an introvert. In some way, I see my self through you. your words, your insight, your accurate understandings ,it resonates with who I am as an INFJ introvert. Been the rarest personality type on Earth, for me is always a beautiful thing to see another person with whom your soul reflects with… You’re a blessing to our kind…
Merci beaucoup
Lovely. Truly…
But “scull”– did you mean a rowing reference, or the bones housing the brain?
Thank you for sharing this poem!
Thank you for all the work you do!! So very good!! So very helpful!! Blessings!!!