Always used to dance fearlessly
never caring who, you
caught a glimpse, skirts swaying
in a pleated breeze; afternoon
winds blow in reservation
like an ephemeral season's
unforgiving deliverance.
Matured, promiscuity a dagger,
a defense mechanism in adolescence,
but I may have been wiser
than to imagine their touch
could save me from all
the things I never knew, pained me more
than the gore on the big screens.
Finding devotion like kissing God,
rolled in like high tide past midnight
uninvited and looking for a score;
the moon holds vigilance above my heart,
sinking and emerging recurrently,
left to drown in an endless sea
from which there will be no rescue.