A Poet in the Dark

taste the blood in your mouth

the cut stings and you flood

in the sharp messages exude

slap deserved

a haul back and release

such precision and aim

the feeling of fresh hate

cooked in warm love

the first betrayal

simmers in the background

a naïve state of disbelief

both parties make assumptions

incorrect about human nature

evolved from animals we

kill for passions, lust, and greed

what creature does that?

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in the black void of your heart

love suffocated before it starts

claustrophobic as you were

smothered love face down

can I gasp or breathe?

I thought you cared, was deceived

something borrowed never returned

just a possession, barely fought for

hardly earned

Ice cold kisses now adorn me

shall I recant my allegiance?

As I gather courage to stray

you threaten to end your misery

next time not with a dull blade

Shall I pray you gather strength

find the folly in love under duress

a captive audience is still enslaved

when all it is their freedom they crave

we perform a nightly chore

you mollify my beast for an hour or more

but after a grateful slumber

I break from the spell I am under

slump back to my glided cage

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She gilded me into her lair

smooth almost sublime

words were unnecessary

acceptance was in the orbs

As she opened the gift

she yearned for in sighs

in quiet moments before

joined in union in the night

Slight glances in dreams

after all, no one must become wise

tutorials after lessons

pupils need clear eyes

She rubbed her prize gently

a trophy she would polish

with the finesse of an Olympic swimmer

contortions in the night

Her supple firm body

would be his lecturing guide

if before had little meaning

a measure, a passing test

Anxiously awaiting to find

heaven in context of silk sheets

and a Master’s hearts

loved truly, perhaps in hindsight

willingness to be led

leaves promises of forever

of the love that would stay

always longing to

for moments are meant to be cherished

like a stray of sunlight before

the coming dusk of night

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