whilst sunlight slides through the shutters,
softly silver white in the gleams --
i say, how i cannot love you the same
today as years ago.i pressed thoughts of you to my pillow
playfully, and reach down through my thighs
though i was then haltered: by a vision
of dyed roots and careless legs
carcass-spread in the nightgrass --
a stranger's scent seeped onto your sheets
which you slept in soundly still.i make myself sick over the number 3
and can never sleep again for
you loved me less: left for dead in an old dream,
long since stale and faded by the early daylight
that streamed through my window:
i cannot love the same, not again, not tonight.(7th October 2018)
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Have you seen the Lost Boys?
Poetryharking back to an earlier poem of mine: poor wendy -- all the heroines get left behind. but she was a darling after all. yes, i very much have tears in my eyes. and it shall be hard to see, and sometimes i won't want to, but i will go on looking an...