R/R Poetry of the Night
Oct. 24th, 2006 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinaedWhat can I say to you? How can I retract
All that that fool, my voice, has spoken
Now that the facts are plain, the placid surface cracked,
The protocols of friendship broken?
I cannot walk by day as now I walk at dawn
Past the still house where you lie sleeping.
May the sun burn these footprints on the lawn
And hold you in its warmth and keeping.
~"Protocols" by Vikram Seth
("Protocols" really feels like a R/R post-Trinity poem to me, where Rodney realizes he's screwed up but hasn't been truly forgiven yet. But that could just be in my head. *grins*)
Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
~"Encouraged" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
(Um...not sure how to explain my reasoning behind this one. *shrugs and grins*)
Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.
~"Oh, When I Was in Love With You" by A.E. Housman
(This is a post-relationship R/R to me, where Rodney mellowed out a bit when he and Radek were together, and now that they've broken up, he's back to his old self again.)
All that that fool, my voice, has spoken
Now that the facts are plain, the placid surface cracked,
The protocols of friendship broken?
I cannot walk by day as now I walk at dawn
Past the still house where you lie sleeping.
May the sun burn these footprints on the lawn
And hold you in its warmth and keeping.
~"Protocols" by Vikram Seth
("Protocols" really feels like a R/R post-Trinity poem to me, where Rodney realizes he's screwed up but hasn't been truly forgiven yet. But that could just be in my head. *grins*)
Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
~"Encouraged" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
(Um...not sure how to explain my reasoning behind this one. *shrugs and grins*)
Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.
~"Oh, When I Was in Love With You" by A.E. Housman
(This is a post-relationship R/R to me, where Rodney mellowed out a bit when he and Radek were together, and now that they've broken up, he's back to his old self again.)
