10 Ix
White Spectral
Wizard
It isn’t that we
quarreled –
Or fought with
sharpened Tongue and Fang
Or clawed our Way
through Tunnels full of Gloom
Together –
No fuming Rage or
Thunder
Tore our Hearts
apart
Eros, too, stood
silently at bay
Peeking in on us –
standing on tip-toe
Watching as we mocked
Love’s glory
Imitating the
sublime State
We moved
simultaneously toward
And away from one
another
The Possibility of US
did not
Dawn in Flashes of
bright Light
You spoke of
Rockets, saying
“I need others as well
as you –
Another instead of
you.”
Inside me never you
–
Only you
There are Burdens
you carry
Awkwardly against
your Will
Away from me you
turn
Even while
approaching
You balance yourself
self-consciously
In order not to fall
or disturb
A precarious Equilibrium
Being January’s
Child
I know the two-faced
god
Of Ambivalence –
Janus is false
fashioned
As you are rudely
fake
You give and then
abruptly take
Away
I had little time
To test the
Truth
To run the Gamut of
Emotions
Bequeathed to me
As crown Jewels –
I chose the simple
Stone
Of Disenchantment
I now deny false
gods –
Declare that I will
repair
The bruised Heart
within me beating –
The Decision is mine
To make without you
Even as I have been
With you
Awareness breaks in
Waves of
Consciousness –
The rhythmic Swell
of Knowledge
Builds the natural
Bridges of my Soul –
Only forward does my
inner Eye direct
As I acquaint myself
with myself again –
Without you.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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