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I swear

* Have you ever tried to convince yourself that you WEREN’T in love with someone, when the harder you tried, the more you realized you really WERE?? *

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       well … you were there - you saw it all
   you witnessed while I tried to scrawl
 with bloodied hand, a thread of shine
to seep the crack and keep her mine
absconding hope from wishes grand
 a final message scratched thru sand …
   “You never meant that much to me” -
       I swear, she never did …

yes, men my ilk, we’re scoundrels true
    we’ll daub our lies with shades of blue
      and phrase our gifts of love too soon
       all wrapped in beams of summer moon
       hence don’t conclude I found her rare
      for sake I’ve saved these locks her hair
    she never meant that much to me -
I swear, she never did …

       well, you know me I’m quick to wax
   romantic - damned be truth or facts
 for such pursuits of curves and flesh
can oft’ demand that tongues enmesh
through mischiefs naught but libertine
 so though I graced her like my queen
   she never meant that much to me -
       I swear, she never did …

this love thing’s just a game you see
    why can’t some rascals play for free?
      she’s just one more who made my list
       of sweetened angels kept and kissed
       and though she’s tattooed on my arm
      don’t think me captured by her charm
    she never meant that much to me -
I swear, she never did …

       now, all the damsels come and gone
   are what my poems are versed upon
 those conquests of my fool’s desires
make sure these pages rage as fires
and though she’s muse of ALL I write
 don’t think she’s precious in my sight
   she never meant that much to me -
       I swear, she never did …

oh yes, she strides an angel’s grace
    and heaven bleeds to blush her face
      my heart so throbs her beck and call
       so let the tide wipe clear my scrawl
       though I’d give life for one last kiss
      don’t think she’s dearer me than this:
    she never meant that much to me -
I swear, she never did …

       I swear.





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