Tuesday, July 16, 2024

a Pandora's box April 21, 2012

 


She doesn't like the bartender,

telling me he's rude,

when I suspect something else,

 making me cross the street

to another bar where we can

have the drink she says she needs

after such a long hard day at the office.

This is our second clandestine

meeting in Hometown

where nobody can keep secrets and

we -- no doubt -- are being seen

by people who know us

 even if we don't know them,

she sipping her white wine

the way she had on our first time,

 though she seems less open this time,

as if she needs to keep secret

 other things she's not yet told me about,

 and I can only guess about the details

and wonder what more she might have to say

after all she's already said,

her life like a Pandora's box,

 the lid of which is barely cracked open,

 and hints of other, even dangerous things

she needs to trust me much,

much more to ever reveal.

 

 


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