Bill Drayton Poet Free verse

Unrequited Pursuit

UNREQUITED PURSUIT 

Head, tilted provocatively to one side,
An open, almost-lascivious smile
Pointed at me darkly smouldering
Eyes, poured out with scented honey into 
Eager, penetrated hands,

Held in supplication for too much
To be received from sacred insecurity:
I was yours to be the obedient servant,
Ready in attendance for what might come. 

Then I awoke from the naked unreality
Of a wanderer's listless dream,
Confronted by an immovable present
Where you didn't exist.

Just a capricious phantom 
Of the imagination you were,
Scratching at my fallen ways
To bleed them in plain sight.

I have forgotten the passing image 
That used to beguile but became
Poisoned for every 
Thirst-quenching well
That might have satisfied.

I rose up to stand confirmed 
By renewed confidence in a future
That no longer included your boyish disdain
For lifelong commitment.

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