#1028980 added March 15, 2022 at 8:04pm Restrictions: None
As My Own
my heart throbbed for fire red hair, a cherub who
could not conceive her reflection, a devilish grin
on pottery-glazed cheeks -- matter of fact ignored
blue piercing her green when she openly stared
at a crow.
and when we hit a smoky lake superior strip
with that college clan drinking on land, they dared
bare skin. your sweater cast off, revealed pink panties,
braved waves hurtling ashore. and alone, I shoved off,
defeated.
I didn’t want to share you or know if yip, yip,
yipping jackals had owned you in our moonlight.
just an unknowable, self-protective wall of man,
too afraid to go free, naked with a spirited,
animal baying.
lacking sacrifice of virgin skin in ice black air, flesh
I longed entwine never warmed this soul's container.
I'm an island of man, not a public spectacle. immoral
to project a vision for you I could never embrace
as my own.
3.15.22
20 lines, free verse
Love Unrequited, it seemed.
I wanted irony twist at end to see who really should be condemned.
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