Love, Just Another Fan
nackteziege
05 Feb 2006
Last night around quarter of midnight, I was listening to disk 2 of Gold and just felt like it was an appropriate time to finally write a poem to KC, which I had been planning on doing but just couldn't find the words. So, here's my incredibly freeform poem to our favorite female vocalist...
Love, Just Another Fan
Your voice, so sweet and clear,
just like the guitar you sing of,
floats around my rooming, consuming me
in it's melancholy tone.
Did you even know what a beautiful
person you were?
The warmth of your voice wraps me in your pain,
your sorrows...
But gloom is not the theme of all you sing.
No, for as empty as you sometimes felt,
there were times you were "on top of the world."
Just as I feel your pain,
your voice with a happier tone can make me
"feel the promise of a brand new kind of world."
Your life was cut short by a savage beast
eight years before mine began;
however, hearing your voice makes me feel like
your close friend, sharing your joy and dispair.
I, to, have felt "I need to be in love", but
"all I know of love is how to live without it"
(and "the best love songs [really] are
written with a broken heart").
So, for you, Karen Carpenter,
I take some poetic license and shed my share of tears.
None of it is enough to thank you for
sharing your gift with millions at such tragic cost...
Love, Just Another Fan.
Love, Just Another Fan
Your voice, so sweet and clear,
just like the guitar you sing of,
floats around my rooming, consuming me
in it's melancholy tone.
Did you even know what a beautiful
person you were?
The warmth of your voice wraps me in your pain,
your sorrows...
But gloom is not the theme of all you sing.
No, for as empty as you sometimes felt,
there were times you were "on top of the world."
Just as I feel your pain,
your voice with a happier tone can make me
"feel the promise of a brand new kind of world."
Your life was cut short by a savage beast
eight years before mine began;
however, hearing your voice makes me feel like
your close friend, sharing your joy and dispair.
I, to, have felt "I need to be in love", but
"all I know of love is how to live without it"
(and "the best love songs [really] are
written with a broken heart").
So, for you, Karen Carpenter,
I take some poetic license and shed my share of tears.
None of it is enough to thank you for
sharing your gift with millions at such tragic cost...
Love, Just Another Fan.
newvillefan
05 Feb 2006
That's really lovely and so heartfelt. 
Sometimes it just works when you get something down like that on the spur of the moment, rather than labour over it.
Stephen
Sometimes it just works when you get something down like that on the spur of the moment, rather than labour over it.
Stephen
polarbear
05 Feb 2006
Jamie, that's an amazing poem! 
Seriously wow, you're talented.
It was also really sweet.
Seriously wow, you're talented.
It was also really sweet.
Well done!
