When full mouthed leers
At diner tables
Traveled like coated wire cables,
Through dark and red
To sleep stricken fables
Undermining objective labels
Drawing self-chuckling grins
At the hands of limbs
Of fortunes grave and grim,
I gave in
And sank inhaling
With all within reach and sight
Spinning and failing
Abandoned apparent right
For what I thought was new beginning
With you.
Jun 8, 2021
Jun 8, 2021 at 8:33 PM UTC
When full mouthed leers
At diner tables
Traveled like coated wire cables,
Through dark and red
To sleep stricken fables
Undermining objective labels
Drawing self-chuckling grins
At the hands of limbs
Of fortunes grave and grim,
I gave in
And sank inhaling
With all within reach and sight
Spinning and failing
Abandoned apparent right
For what I thought was new beginning
With you.
I didn't write this by myself but I certainly felt this way...the title was an allusion to the story of king Soloman and the two mothers fighting over whose child it was
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