Momentary Mistress.
We touched for a moment
From across the room
Eternity silenced
Discrete
As only eyes allow
Paralyzed here
Standing in yen
Yearning
And somehow fearful
I turn away
If I held valiance
Crass and fiery
I would dare to you
Though not today
I am of frailty’s ire
Flames of forbidden desire
That is you
A rare beauty of youth
Luminous
Unquenchable light
I am lost and aged tonight
Brazen solitude
Afraid to look in your eyes
Fearing the burn
Of desire fulfilled
Heavy heaves in my chest
In a sigh of defeat
Up the empty pathway
I move on
Unwilling…unchanged
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