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AT THE NEON OF NIGHT That night closed when the café did With all the secrets a star once hid There was the whisper of a woman’s woe And a man with nowhere else to go Two souls shunning the same shadow One mystery hidden in the mist and midst of misery Two who sat upon opposite stools toasting the sunshine………. While fearing the moon An orb with the ferocity of fangs that grow fearsome as they devour the noon And regret is urged all too soon……. The neon wept for two souls lost Upon whose hearts was embossed the emblem of empathy And strength summoned by sympathy Until one weakens from weariness and following errant rainbows While wishing on stars too long dead A shine and shrine shrouded shamelessly in dread As the soul of sublimation summarily bled When time sped by with seconds spent in seclusion And hours harbored in the hollow halls of hopelessness Wherein horror speaks of its own adulation And betrayal is betrothed by beauty You spilled some bear as I drew near And fear festered within my stare of stagnation with your self-righteous indignation You were the you I feared you would be And I, alas, was only me No match for beauty, guile and glee Since I was only me The barkeep was taken by your sea-green eyes, As I was forsaken by stars bleeding from the abdomen And a miserly moon who made madness seem minus its usual impact Your eyes………. With a luminescent shade seldom seen in the seediness of a small café a café that gave way to neediness neglected and desire lost the battle that led to victimization rejected after laughter, libation and languid conversation small talk that seemed big at a small café and incinerated the fate that would otherwise force me to my knees beside a bar A woman whom I would………… with blessed determination and clenched teeth, keep afar a lady who lingers in a landscape of roses and retribution And although I was just me this me knew to flee…………. The neon closed its eyes that night As I went left and you went right Fortune’s face was then revealed When I avidly avoided what a woman of woe would yield © 2012….copyright PHREEPOETREE ....~free cee!~
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