Poems about things resembling love

These are poems about things resembling love.

Graduation
Now I wield your strange charm.
Like a hobo sorcerer
In a ratty velvet cloak
And a festooned dunce cap,
I am a walking freak show
Disguised as a man.
I remember loving you,
And it’s taken me this long
To fully realize
How impossible that was.


Love Can’t Conquer Everything

I loved you,
But you belonged
To the silver moon,
That phosphorescent,
Mottled boomerang
Frozen in an obsidian vacuum.

I bayed once
At its ivory pallor
Reflected on a turquoise sea
Stained chocolate with night
And swelling
Under the same influence,
But you stayed there.

A distant dog somewhere
Howls tonight,
Like a wolf once did
And you still do.




Murder

When you left,
I realized what I had to do.
I killed the man
I was pretending to be.
I killed him quickly, mercifully.
His bleeding entrance and exit wounds
Stained the bed we once shared
Amorphous crimson.

I planned it out meticulously,
And executed it without emotion.
I am guilty.
I may be a prisoner
Divided from the world forever
By iron and stone.
I may be executed,
But I had to do it.
He stole everything from me.