We do not speak of love.
Philosophies entwine, bridge and bind
The careful space between us.
We do not speak of love.
A fingertip might sometimes touch;
If it lingers, who can count the time?
We do not speak. Our eyes
Ignite the atmosphere!
We seize, we hold, we lie together
Kind to kind, fear to fear;
We rise, pull some words around us
Of physio-chemical attraction,
Neuroses interacting
We do not speak of love.
THESACK
Hell is where the heart is
Or used to be,
Or never was.
Torrent Dead Sea.
Splinter life from me
Separate, who says we are free?
One in the bush
two in the sack
Safe from contraction
Sinister attack
Sinistral Assassin
Distraction;
obscenity in this act,
in this life fractured
Cacophony of children
Bowie knife
Misophonic
angry
Demanding action
Chemical attraction
Gin and tonic mixed with crazy
A sharp deflection
An ugly wife
A compounded reflection
A definite maybe
A sterile life.
End.
By Joel R Thornton
December 17th 2014
To
Understand
What
Love is not an easy task.
To
Confuse
Childish
Butterflies bottled up
Until we
Hiccup giggles
In summer afternoons
Was
Nothing but
a silly
crush
Like a little girl
anticipating Christmas
I used to
shake waiting for your arrival
to
unwrap me
and
now
I understand
Now
This was
Not
Love
But it was a chemical attraction
EXPLOSIVE
Oh
The match you lite
Sparked fireworks burning its embers into the pallet
Of dark
Mischief memories
that Covered us
with the cover of night.
Oh yes it was
Addictive like sleep
I await you
With
Open
Arms
Of a woman
And
An unlimited allotment of patience
And
In love,
I
Will
Hold onto
What is really true
Always remembering how
I feel
About you
Moments
Of
Innocence
And
Complete
And utter
Acceptance.
is
what i am
wishing for
Will
You
Stand
Here
In the rain
We can Brace each other
From the worldly pain
But
I
Will shield you
From the cool wind at the end of the day
To understand
the true definition
of love
is not an easy
task.
But
It is finally giving of thine-self
of
your
worldly
desires
for someone else.
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