Kurt Philip Behm Poet Rhyme

A Ruse

I was trying
very hard
not to say it

I was biting
my lip
and my tongue

But when you
insisted
I no longer resisted

And words
I had muzzled
did come ...

“Your presence
beyond
what is boring

“The space you
take up 
but a ruse

“If given
a choice
I’d be far from your voice

“Reclaiming
this time
— I now lose”

(Dreamsleep: July, 2026)

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