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This Dissembling Man

This Dissembling Man... Trod thru three score orbitz with air tight (hermetically sealed) lid on his emotions bare reft of evincing concern and/or care ring forever guarded against incursions upon fragile as chinaware psyche foregoing giving healthy breathing room never to dare risk challenging discomfort zones skirting, hemming, and hawing deliberately averting, shying, sidestepping away against welcoming awkward adolescent romantic experience, thus never playfully trying to ensnare and/or allowing, enabling, and providing gamesome opportunities providing willingness tubby triangulated ascending ark hay yick teenagehood, when deux dozen, foursquare, nor eighteen candlebox birthdays, nonetheless hungrily glare ring with salivating envy peers that hare tuff hoar did gather their rose buds...despite, or perhaps because raging testosterone overtook coy demure lassie tude surrendering, whence young womanly primal urges let machismo insnare whereat discovering prickly "beau" vine love on par with being a millionaire despite tiffs that, tested one's mettle quickly learning the vital lesson to turn/beat cutting edge sword into plowshare setting the figurative stage, when feathering one's nest to prepare for legal covenant, (a death do me part binding resolution) endeavoring to sustain a lifelong commitment however difficult and rare.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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