Saturday, June 15, 2024

What you needed June 1, 2024

  

I realize now

What I didn’t then,

How you needed more

Than I was

Willing to give,

A warm body beside you,

Powerful arms to hold you,

A tender kiss on your lips,

Your tits, your hips,

An embrace that is more

Than just a breeze passing

Through one window

And out the other,

You needed someone

Who could/would

Stay the night,

Arms that held you save

In those hours of vacacy

After I (and other men like me)

Had to move on,

A romance that would stay

Attached rather than

Peal away,

We always more a temporary

Reprieve, a Band Aide,

That causes as much pain

When removed

Than we foolishly believed

We could shield

You from.

I realize now

What didn’t know then,

What you needed

Was love.

 


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