Friday, September 17, 2021

Kismet Is a Sphinx

 

upon eye contact, loving you, feral to my bones; elated, confidential, you were a cringing Witness; blue ribbons, flowered dresses, minds innocent, too misleading, too indeliberate. a chase, biting, nibbling, so much beauty in youth.

 

I’ve become jaded. I’ve lost faith. I should search for excitement.

 

I write to Freedom. I enflame in gestures. I’m indescribable.

 

not as grandiose, we each share a verse, accursed by interior, made sensitive through information.

 

the father of the daughter—needing to prevent pain, listening to choices in direction, probed by insecurities.

 

upon eye contact, loving you, feral to my bones; graphed inside, your racing face, alive in a deathzone. as rare as fleeing, as fine as molasses, something that seeps into consciousness—ever slowly. at variant passions, games meant for seduction, persons we never name.

 

so fiery, so flamed, so famed—as astute creatures, during rain, one doesn’t know her worth. systematic depletion, raw fevers, meant for another galaxy.

 

sweet licorice, sweeter attraction, forever in skies.

 

upon eye contact, loving you, feral to my bones; souls reuniting, feeling good, with misunderstanding: gates filled with sparks, lands at spacial arcs, those larks so high, we reach; at critical climates, most human in pain, trying to sustain a fortress.  

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