Tracy Decker Poet Sonnet

Passage

So quickly pass connections formed for lack
of will or faith, though power in the void;
temptation now prohibits turning back,
concealing this - a mind elsewhere employed.
Not two words spoken since, today the first,
a hand placed carelessly upon the skin
that knows too well the hunger and the thirst
for what it sought so desperately within
your eyes - and finding nothing, then withdrew;
your soul - and found it equally as bare;
desire - perhaps the one thing that was true,
(though only words, rekindled with your stare…)

I gave my dignity and pleading grace
for this, the emptiness now in its place.

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