Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Unmagnetized Fires

 

the mathematics of romance, tender violence, visceral passion. loving you was serious, found uneasy, certain rejection—loving, notwithstanding. much left unstated, many bees, much honey; a man to his fears, like a rabid fox, chased without mercy. the sports we create, love becomes a carnival, things we never confess. by inmost feelings, having you inside, like a sixth sense. maybe we dissolve easily. not at all quite certain. maybe we carry a flicker—but can’t oblige.

 

the algorithm of satiation, like a starving tabby, at a feast of fancies. loving you was easy, an old calling, a predestined attraction. loving you was hard, a new dilemma, like carrying a dozen metals. the fight inside, erasing indelible memories, like a man pushing a brick wall. another might giggle, he has never been captured, as to imagine un-withering lovemaking; souls engulfed, hearts thumping, as two are infuriated by each other.

 

fantasy must die softly, the gentle disappointment, the harsh observer; as an inward cartoon, making light of atrophy—the slow decay of romance. as it lives, a decent human, a perpetual soul, too delicate to chase indecision. needing comfort, prestige, the symbolism of the kingdom.   

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