Reprise

Across the room
behind the shadow of his diffidence
he knew the passion of desire,
felt again the question 
forming on his lips,  
while far outside the barrier 
sealed from a hundred agonies, 
not hearing stifled cries choked down,
the  new prospective lover 
slipping fast away, became
unknowing despot to the heart
obedient, 
compressed.
         ~
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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