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                              MESSAGES IN A BOTTLE

                              Inspirations of Poetic Prose

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANTICIPATION

 

My heart stops each time the phone rings.

The catch in my breathing chokes

as I wait to hear your name identified out loud.

 

We’ve spoken and spat of our secret.

Proclaiming acknowledgement

of our lust’s initial shared understanding.

Me insistent. You half-hearted.

 

Your insecure threats hang over me.

Their preponderance

as if a guillotine blade

prepared to be loosed,

waiting to cleave the momentary pause

between bouts of anticipation of you

and the guilt of a characterless vow

made to my spouse.

 

Revelation doggedly shadows

our movements in public.

Darting clandestinely, wondering,

if the entity which is us

will accidentally be exposed  

by friends or acquaintances

from my other life.

 

You torture by innuendo

when we are apart

and tantalize with orifices

as we copulate.

 

You don’t own me,

I proceed willingly

into the slavery

of your sexual proclivities 

 

and yet

 

aware we have no future

our abuses continue.

                         

© 2005

 

 


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