Flight

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disembodiment
from body and soul
you escape into dreams
of travesty
like sin
slipping into surgical gloves
I suffocate you
with a smothering possessiveness --
called love

and I watch you moan
helplessly and I revel
in your hopes
of a different reality.

(Hope this is not trash) PoetryWhere stories live. Discover now