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a target for her beauty

she is outspoken and bold

bold like the sun

bolder than an army of boulders

falling from a hillside

she is an avalanche

when there is nowhere left to run

she is despised by some

and others wish to fill her

with some old fashioned whisky

i am sanctified by her ways

and returned to my former glory

as this poem has tasted far better days

she is a morning glory

her eyes are like the petals of a flower

she is the Wordsworth of the decade

a wordsmith dancing in her own decay

 

i am essentially a target

a lost projectile in the arrow's path

she has coaxed me back to sanity

with her sardonic gestures

and her sarcastic use of wit

i am a nitwit she said

so i laugh and pick the flowers from her hair

slowly and soporifically

i am seaweed adrift in her bonnet

sandpaper scattered along the shoreline

remove the blind spectacles

and eat the lines i’ve written

a poem is just a candle anyway

to spray the eyes of infinity with lightning

mars is retrograde regardless

so i’ll just sit here and pretend

that i’m not too much of a target for her beauty

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Jul 23, 2018
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