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Sunkissed
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0 posted 2010-08-24 09:39 AM


What do you know of this love?
fierce and fiery lava canals
inside my heart
alive watchful eyes
disciplined to battle
amazing foes
fearless in the face of
tragedy

have you treasured your rewards
through many tempests?
over treacherous hills?
through dense darkness?

I became the warrior
scarred from battles
mustering strength to live
on the edge of whatever
never aquainted with tomorrow

what challenges may come
I will pick up my sword
defend against the "well wishers"
Spit at the feet of ignorance
parry the foolish
slice to shreds loaded advice
lacking experience or knowledge
of this fierce love

let me know of your swelling
if you savored each movement
beneath fingers seeking?
smelled love in soft down
and silk roses?
instinctively knew cries of
your own?

would you lay your head upon
the guillotine for this love?

I have, I will, I do

speak nonsense to poison
fed philosophers
save empty graces for lace gloves
lifting delicate china to
gossiping lips
these calloused hands would
crush such things
the fire in this throat would
erupt mercilessly upon prissy
dresses and barbed niceties

stand down

for you know NOTHING of this love
nor have you beheld the connection


~Sunkissed

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Cpat Hair
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1 posted 2010-08-24 12:49 PM


strongly written ma'am....the strength and bits of anger present supporting the feelings beneath...

a pleasure to read...

Sunkissed
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2 posted 2010-08-24 01:13 PM


Thank you, Captain! It's a bit of a rant from a few years ago when someone was overly critical of my family. Brought out the lioness in me, it did. *chuckles*

~Sunkissed

Jesse Jaymz
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since 2000-01-24
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Youngstown, ohio
3 posted 2010-08-25 01:03 PM


Very nice.  We all have that never back down voice inside of us.  Sometimes it just takes us longer to find it.  
Sunkissed
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4 posted 2010-08-25 01:10 PM


So true, Jesse. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment!

~Sunkissed

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