Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Love IV

I give you one vow, the root of love, to transcend an ocean;
for paradise is love, a stage of hypnosis, ardent and
overwhelming. We elicit love, abscond with hearts, and
fail the many facets of love; and still, ever this love,
sailing frequencies, to perish this love. So genteel a
thought, captured in unreality, where you dance hung-over,
for we never play pretend. Love’s a maestro, to dictate
through wands, ever rapacious—for neural ecstasy. I light
a lamp, and pardon pain, where all is addiction. It’s a
fairytale, even a wildfire, the mysteries of a poet. You
vomit and scream, to ruin a blouse, standing mid-room
spellbound. We unmask, lie and dine, to pass out with a
fever. You give me love, where others set sail, found in a
darkroom. Your art is grand, a train of metaphors, published
in multiple magazines. It’s opalescent, and ever dreamlike,
courting a dry-spell. In love, it’s nearly surreal, to stand, lit
with pangs, feeling something quasi-religious.


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