THEY SAID
SHE WAS BLIND
— ED by the virility in his skin,
lit and scorched by Midas himself

THAT
SHE CHOKED
on his nobility,
plumes of swindled words,
even though what she saw was
pure sweetness of a plum

carved and full, heavy
all light and divinity
glorious soul from the Heaven's
tied to hers

though at the end of the day
what she came to understand was
— THEY WERE RIGHT

BECAUSE YOU LIED
STUBBORN RESISTANT ME ALL ROSE-TINTED AND POLISHED
YOU
MY BONES MOANED AND SHOOK
PETRIFIED
TO REACH OUT
TO SEARCH FOR —
ANYTHING, SOMETHING!

It astonishes me how I once let you touch my skin.