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Tiersdin
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0 posted 2002-05-17 09:41 AM




I'd failed to believe
buying tremerariously into
each frisson of passion like
some maudlin junkie of love
I'd cast pearls before swine~
or had it been the other way
around?
The scales may tip even, but
probity on my part manages to
range from nil to none
These are my demons, my own
secret hell that most would
percieve as a fooforaw,
even dismissable
After all, these arms have
held no one but whom I've
sworn oath to
Still, my heart had been
indiscreet, conspiring to
conflate refractorily against
me in an attempt to bring to
ruin everything I'd been taught
from childhood
We'd traveled extensively the
roads of why & how
both of us coming up short &
wanting at the end
yet my conscience munches
greedily upon my sanity, my
beliefs until I am raw from
thought
what languishes in
his heart, I cannot know
nor do I care
what matters is his unyeilding
devotion to us,
untiring determination to win
me, nuture me, fulfill me
in one inexplicable sweep, love me
he proves himself a shelter,
my sequioa
one able to ride the tide
of my ebullience with expertise
as well as inhale & hold
when I dive the depths of despair
presumptuous of me to look
outwardly for a sign
attempting to read another book
when I'd barely perused beyond
the title of my own
I hadn't believed,
but now, with all my heart,
I do...


~Tier{R.T.}
5/02

"I shall never bond again, as I have bonded with you..."

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1 posted 2002-05-17 04:09 PM


searching here. . .yes, lots of searching. . .

well done. . .

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Duncan
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2 posted 2002-05-17 05:34 PM


Quite a struggle to wrap up so neatly in the last two lines.  Then again, who can argue with a decision of the heart?  
Tiersdin
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3 posted 2002-05-17 07:37 PM


Thank you both, this was a struggle to write because this was more fact than fluff. For that reason, I appreciate your comments greatly!

*hugs*

~Tier

"I shall never bond again, as I have bonded with you..."

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