Right to reply
With me being able to read, lines of torment-gracing scrumpled-up
forehead
Like intoxicating book. Watchfully wading through relative emotions
Of restrained chapter one.
I’m determined to make it to sure-fire end, at which point in time
There’ll be no need to pretend
As we bashfully fall over each other
To see who’s first to begin - the long and bumpy journey home:
With neither a sleazy wink, nor a curtailing kiss. But to relish...
Getting used to going our indifferent separate ways,
While gradually growing accustomed to full reconciliation
In heart of muddled matter, in days.
Unable to stay magnetically away from slob of lover - I don’t know what
binds
Our radiant minds: they take cover.
Telling periods of timeless miles apart, strengthen repetitively crumbling
rapport:
Trying too hard to hit bulging bull’s eye
Completely missing ‘staring in our faces’ point
And dabbling with viscious voodoo consequences,
On terribly scathed dartboard.
Diverting coalesced tracks in light of day: dead of bravest night.
Frantic searching out of corner of wretched eye: in which
I’m sure there’s something -
But take heed: whatever happens this time
Due to viscous, thought of as being good-for-nothing practice:
You won’t see me unsupportively crease up,
Until I apathetically cry.
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