Thursday, June 27, 2024

Missing it July 2012

 Ok, I admit it, I miss it.

You always want what you can’t have

the less likely you are to get it,

the more intensely you think you need it.

I admit it, I do,

 from that first time outside

where she spewed cigarette

 smoke like a dragon,

too dangerous to kiss

 yet, aching to,

the fire inside nearly scalding

as that without,

subsequently all those other

if brief encounters,

an errant knight

 seeking to dip his lance

into the softest spot,

aching to stir up the blaze

 only found in the deepest places

only after significant duel,

the in and out,

 the stabbing down into the pit,

not to cause pain,

 but to cure it,

the wrestling required

to stir up these coals

with time,

to extinguish the fire

that burns so hot

in both of us.

Ok, I admit it, I miss it,

miss more what I never had,

never will,

 except for those times at night

when I close my eyes

and wish for it,

 wish it could all be real.

email to Al Sullivan


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