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A Defensive Aggression

Honestly

I've been honest

with you

since the beginning,

I think,

but there is this

lingering

note on your face

that keeps me

in dis array

about what was

true and what was

fake,

 

Can you give

me a hand

and stand

in a way

that displays

a truth about

the inner ways

beneath that gaze?!

 

PLEASE

try something

like this

or that,

like,

Because I'd

hate to see

what you mean

to really

say

is that you might

be waiting

for someone

who was displaced,

Or is that just me?

 

Long gone and late

in a phase

that's out of place

and perhaps,

well,

my love,

with your torn soul in

two

and into my lap

like a warning tap

on the top

of my arm,

It told me,

 

It told me not

to trap you

because,

well,

what's

Harmful to you

is often too

strong on me,

four weeks times

three,

or maybe four?

Oh god and

with these mistakes

(as you know),

I seemingly need

it to bleed,

stream down

my eyes

like tears

and in fear,

Because time

is often

too long here,

(As you know),

 

Honey,

can you hear me?

Deep inside please

give me a sign

because it was coming

to be about that time

in the road!

And that fork

told me

that it's going to

need more

from you

to recuperate

because

so much time

and effort

makes repair

so much longer,

 

Because sweetest,

the love I have

is the trash on its way,

the ash still burning in the tray,

The blast

still shaking

with waves

but,

the mast is

facing the wrong

way.

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Published
May 2, 2010
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