Wednesday, October 14, 2015

We Love Like Strangers

I’m credulous, Love; and seeping through metaphysics.
I’m dying love; and reaping through physics.
We grind like strangers, a star for hooks,
puffing through
flames. I love you like pathos, a bit mawkish, to grip
earlobes. We lotion soul, a goose-down shower,
dripping oils. Take a brush, a thousand strokes, pulling
hairs. I’m so aesthetic, afraid to love, a sick addiction;
for I die between, a torn ascetic, to gnaw for ankles.
It’s reminiscent, and déjà vu, a contrite soul. Love us
like mystics, a godly countenance, a deep intrusion; for
love is tulips, a bleak existence, fraught with beauty.
It never was, a forever is, as luminous as candles.     I’m
there, a minx’s birthday, dripping in chaos. It’s more a
liquor, boldly enamored, sitting for tremors. We wither—
to resurrect, to photo apparitions. It’s us, a keystone gem,
afraid to love. So souls depart, and partly fractured,
longing for two days past. 

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