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Look At Me Damn You

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Look At Me Damn You

 

I'm screaming, shouting, look at me

It's you I'm talking to

Not talking to the bloody wall

It's you I'm talking to

 

I'm screaming, shouting, look at me

Demand connect with you

Don't need connection with a wall

I want connect with you

 

I'm screaming, shouting, look at me

Do you not understand?

Importance of our eye contact?

Your look-away's - now banned

 

Don Matthews August 2019

◄ My Muse is Getting Fussy

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Mae Foreman

Thu 29th Aug 2019 12:18

Very well crafted Don! No eye contact, can be very frustrating indeed. Someone has to say these things, thank you!?
Mae

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Don Matthews

Wed 28th Aug 2019 15:09

Gosh DoRoThY you're rhyming.....

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Don Matthews

Wed 28th Aug 2019 14:39

DoRoThY - " the eyes, nose, ears, whole body is behind the curtain"...... You've taken this to the next level... I like it....But not your frustration level

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Don Matthews

Wed 28th Aug 2019 09:22

It applies really only to situations when you are trying desperately to communicate/connect with someone and they won't give you eye contact. Look at me damn you.......

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Don Matthews

Wed 28th Aug 2019 09:17

I wrote this first and then titled it 'Eye Contact' No, I thought this doesn't express the frustration shown in the poem. A more appropriate 'frustration' title was needed.

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Jason Bayliss

Wed 28th Aug 2019 09:15

It's reassuring and steadying to have eye contact. I deal with difficult people in my line of work, and you learn to balance eye contact out with no eye contact in order to get them to listen key lines of conversation. It's quite a skill, a bit like fishing. So yeah, there are times I deliberately deny eye contact in order to accentuate the effect of when it's made.

J. x

<Deleted User> (22444)

Wed 28th Aug 2019 09:06

A little scary Don, but it's a bugger to be ignored.

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