shannon wasson Poet Rhyme

loved you like the devil

Worlds apart in the same place
We were both hot in the race
Gunnin for trouble at a
6 minute  a mile pace
Looking straight at the devil sittin shotgun 
wiping lines off the mirror and off our face
I knew your smell I recognized your soul from a 100 yards away
You took my breath 
you made me blush
You said come on if you aint scared
 I called your bluff 
I jumped up in your red hummer truck
Red lipstick on a flawless wild woman child’s face
you don’t know how you knew 
you knew it been a while 
but you knew me before 
before this time and space
We took the back road 
Now I wish we would have taken the long way 
Knowing what I know now
But It’s too late
I was living in heaven on the fastest route to hell
I don’t know if we both knew that or if we just didn’t care
I know one thing I would have taken that ride anyway 
So it’s just as well
Now were worlds apart  
The days and years run together 
Where I am where I’m going I can’t much tell 
but it’s just as well
I feel your skin 
I smell your breath
Polo black cologne on your brown sugar colored neck
your wagon burning  tattoo
you stole my heart in the dark 
Bare naked chest to chest 
Breathing hard under the moon moaning like wolves 
Rediscovering fate
Riding it out to reel it on in
We were living like we were dying
 It was just the beginning
No care for the world 
cold stares from the world
They hadn’t forgotten about us 
But we refused to acknowledge them
We played like friends 
Fought like lovers 
Forgot all our troubles even while they doubled
We denied our feelings with our addictions 
we pushed and pulled at one another with misdirected intentions
We fought every minute just to make up 
A slave to our lust and attraction
And its just as well
I know the scars on your hands 
I remember our last dance
But overnight
Were worlds apart in the same place
I smell your body though you’re gone
The memory of you forever engraved in my head space
  your beautiful face
Your laugh and sarcasm
A Captured moment of time
ITS YOU  I just can’t erase
And it’s just as well
Were worlds apart in the same place 
Loving each other but  both dying  alone, 
I can Hardly say we are living at all
20 years later we are still worlds apart and married
But something has shifted
You have changed
Is this the ending 
I can’t tell
No one hears me scream and yell
Deep into my pillow tears drowned the cotton and muffle the sound
It’s just as well
If it’s over 
I can’t say 
I can’t tell
I know we will never forget 
But I don’t know if we can ever get back 
Would we choose the same back road 
Its just as well
 its been hell
If we had the chance to meet again in this timeline
Do you even care 
Still riding shotgun with the devil
 me in the middle 
It’s just as well 
I see you look at me in the review mirror 
I smile as you pull away
I catch your eyes I feel your hand give way
You keep driving 
But your still apart of my soul
I turn and walk away 
The love never really fades
And it’s just as well

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