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Open Poetry #34

Perhaps

RSWells
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since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

0 posted 2005-02-02 03:07 PM

Perhaps that itch I scratched was temporary
as viewed from its sublime receptacle,
a chalice my moist lips so oft’ made merry
while into it I poured my very soul

Perhaps that fertile field in which I furrowed,
unsparingly and deeply planted seeds,
overlay a frightened hare who’d burrowed
so long in dark was blind to other’s needs

Perhaps I’d misread wings spread generously
as open invitation to some flight
to soar beyond known heights as “us” or “we,”
unknowingly my love was its bombsite

Perhaps once dressed and snuffing out a candle
you only thought a briefly blinking light,
without redress or thought to how I’d handle
a love confessed you cast to darkest night.

Well truth be known you ravaged as a vandal
and battered me beyond any street fight.
But still I stand, ‘tis you who should know scandal
for that was love I freely gave and right

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