Rough Cuts (unpolished, unpublished poem ...

Rough Cuts (unpolished, unpublished poems #322A)

Feb 27, 2022

This week's Rough Cuts are two different takes on love, a topic to which I would like to dedicate a collection of poems some day.

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Photo: Jeremy Bishop

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Your damn disarming smile

displaced in an instant

with such devastating force,

all reason,

throwing me so violently

against the edge of my reality,

that all I am now

is the sole victim

of an endless landslide,

driven

by the salty metallic taste of desire

and the clawing of lightning behind my eyes,

the whips of this primal need

for you

and the raw awareness

that it will rip me apart

until I am but a stain

at the base of your altar.

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Copyright 2021 by M. E. Forbes

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Photo: Gabriel

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This is where he went

that night

after your last fight

when you said

things you didn't even know

you felt

and still can't admit

you meant,

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when you told him to get out

and stay out,

when you wouldn't answer his calls

except the last one

only to tell him

you never wanted to talk to him again.

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And you never did.

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And you never will

because this is where he went.

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Copyright 2022 by M. E. Forbes

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