Saturday, May 18, 2024

Poetry notebook July 15, 2013

 



Making pearls

 

 

July 15, 2013

 

Sure she's scared,

she should be,

the end game to a love game

that started out in her mind,

real because she thinks it's real,

painful because love imagined

causes pain.

made real by constant rubbing,

the way a clam makes pearls,

if you caress long enough

This thing she clutches

with heart and hands

 molding it into a precious stone

like the stone in a ring on a finger

 that's not hers,

 glitters all the more

when she ceases it,

it's not hers either.

You can't make love by making love,

but often you can't keep it,

forced it to cast out

into the endless sea

, watch it sail away,

 into some else's arms.

 

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