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 © Robert Ludden | Year Posted 2012
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