Inspired by “Across the Universe” by the Beatles
The sister poem to A Seasonal Experience
Mary’s eyes were an emerald pool
While Hazel’s, a deep copper abyss
Every day Hazel’s eyes would burn me
With that smoky, skin-tightening stare
While Mary’s were softer, more soothing
Making me sympathetically drown
Into them, in sublime surrender,
Matching her gaze into nothingness
They loved me, at least my attention
And they’d fight over me violently
Even after they both had won me
Like the tight-dressed vixens in a dull
classroom, and I the boy of their dreams
Like children, except when beneath sheets
And I, the one toy neither could share
Or perhaps neither wanted to share,
Even when I gave into them both
Every day, Hazel holding my arms
Caressing, digging her nails in me
While I kiss Mary’s lips, breathing in
Her intoxicating floral lies
I was not the only one she kissed
While I laid in her apparent arms
She passed her lips onto another
Hazel too in her cold dominance
Strapped her collar on other souls
Even my friend, whose name escapes me
Knew my Hazel so intimately
She put him straight into hospital
His doctor said it was ‘HIV’
I called it an abusive partner
Even if we chose to be with them
We never chose for them to take us
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