Unfettered Verses

Rendezvous

We met
In my late night
Fantasies. You held my hand,
And that kept me
From drowning in your deep
Blue eyes.

But waking tossed me
Back to shore.
You are once again
No more.

***

Perusal

Put your hands

Upon my skin, and feel

The spark that’s born

Of touching 

Something new.

Cradle me, and gently

Delve

Into my hidden depths.

Find the subtle rhymes, the silent 

Rhythm.

Run your eyes

Through every line, every curve,

Every color – paint a scene uniquely

Ours. Enter this world,

This world within the gourd.

Claim it, and together we

Shall make another thing 

Of it.

Conquer,

In all entirety

From    cover    to    cover.

***

I'd rather be the first to fall,

The first to call, "Defeat!"

I'll be the first cascading tear

That comes to douse the heat.

'Tis triumph too, that final stand

Which no one shall repeat.

For courage springs from souls that long

To fate and chances meet.

What though my heart 

Should cease to beat?

My blood won't flow in vain.

The faint and dying footfalls herald that

Of thundr'ing feet.

Apres moi, la deluge.

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