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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#970092 added January 6, 2020 at 10:43am
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I Won’t Tell You The Ending

because i don’t know It yet

You won’t even let me talk
Directly to you
Won’t listen or approve
Can I get an aside
As if
To whisper in your guarded ear, describe
What I see, experience
To make you feel...something?
But in code? Okay,
Use an allegory, metaphors
Personify and disconnect?
From this realm I’ve been running from?
And look back at it like...
Massive, furred forearms flailing
As bared teeth gnash
So close a nose can taste it’s breath?
Show you...fear
That this process is making me realize
Stuff
For you that removed
Ambition, hope...
Forget cliche dreams that left
Before the first gray whisker
That you pointed out, I might add.
I’ve long given up doing dishes
Cleaning the John, running a vacuum
Let’s not forget clotted gutters
Where a once useful ladder could go —
The manly things to do before
Snow, ice and forgotten leaves could remind
Another forgetful season closes
Before we can snuggle under the sheets

I’m in my bed before or after
You arrive, you who nods off in seconds
That I tiptoe around
As I imagine growing shapes on the walls
— that I could, that I would
(Not that I should)
Describe for you with waning imagination

I used to like a cold bed
Still share it
For how long?

It was either this or an ode to attending to a fungal toe...nail?

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