Ryan Muddiman - Singer-songwriter-poet
  • birth.
  • words.
    • poems-unanchored lyrics >
      • sliver
      • gift
      • In Your Way
      • List of Demands
      • a portion of a thought of a glimpse of a moment of a mystery
      • ...not in the...
      • heal
      • ten years + old
      • How Long Might An Hour Be?
      • Dead Folk Are Funny
      • NY
      • Fall.Rise.Fall.
      • truth
      • eulogy/anagram
      • Center
      • Spiritual Striptease
      • differ
      • A Glass For Wine?
      • All My Greatest Works
      • I Want - I'll Take
      • A Season Of You
      • soles.
      • Deluge
      • Seeds
      • Words
      • Emotional Fallout
      • Cradle And The Noose
      • I Search For Tragedy
      • Will It Be A Real Page Turner?
      • Seeds Of Karma
      • I Tried To Give You Up
      • Lament
      • Lofty Thoughts Linger
      • Sleepless
      • Ghosts, Bullets, And Pills
      • Bleeding For Peace
      • At The Corner Of 8th And God Street >
        • I
        • II
      • Dancing
      • Love is a Ghost
      • Birds
      • A Curious Anomaly
      • Losing Time
      • Πολλοί άνθρωποι (Polloí ánthropoi)
      • Thirty Years
      • The Tall Grass
      • Black Rings
      • To Drown
      • Humming
      • Notastrokebutlife
      • For Buk
      • Skin Prison Suffering
      • Faces
      • A Love Affair
      • Knowledge Never Sought
      • Since The Fire
    • poems-anchored to song >
      • Lover Goodbye
      • Damn
      • Strange And Beautiful
      • Never Let
      • Burden
      • Novel
      • Don't Forget To Feel
      • Silent Blue
      • Song For Tyler
      • Humble Resolve
      • God III
      • He Said, She Said
      • In Spite Of All
      • Forever's Too Long
      • Scab
      • Lying
    • on writing >
      • Burial of Self-Delusion
      • Every One of Us
      • Letter to Self 9-1-15
      • On Exile
      • Filthy Whore of Demand
      • Music is
      • In This Moment
  • music.
  • elements of truth / press.
    • City Beat Magazine - Interview be Ezra Waller
    • City Beat Magazine - Interview by C.A. MacConnell
  • images-moving and still.
  • reaching out
  • death (BUY ME).
  • New Page
  • In This Moment
In Your Way


Another sentiment

Another message sent
Another line no one's 
meant to hear 

The dark favor of 
your occasional kiss 
lending momentary bliss- 
distance now 
too much to bear 

You...strange in your way 
send me off 
with a heart of stone 
Faith in my conscience 
that I'll love you, alone 

You...strange in your way 
won't let me too near 
Keep me away-right at arms length 
Right at arms length, 
like a child, 
devoted I stay. 

Bless me with the present 
of your soft word... 
The Sun seemed somehow 
brighter yesterday... 
...when all needed to be quiet 
for you to be heard 
and your tears tiny 
symbols, beacons, clasped-hands, 
begging me to stay

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