Of Love and Fear

by

Of love and fear

I comb her from my mind

Like a kinky knot from my strange hair

And for all my effort

Her broken hands are still tangled there

Like insect netting and mosquito queens

In search of the pulsing veins of kings

Heroin needle snouts deliver

a tiny welt raising high

And her vaporous essence rolls

in my blood shot, maleria stung eyes

She's breathed my breath and jump started

my tired heart
But, it's been so long since we've been apart

that there are no longer any shared physicalities
No oxygen atoms in her blood stream

That escaped my lungs

No skin cells that she has touched

Left anywhere on my body

Individual and broken

Slagged and pasted

By non-binding glue we've found in strange hearts

We've made the science of loss into separate arts

of sex and drunkenness

And, fuck, we're still alone
So, of love and fear I go to sleep

And of love and fear I will wake up

And craziness cracks my surface

On lonely nights after too much wine

Alcohol is often converted to tears in my system

though those tears aren't always spilled

Of love and fear

I kiss my fantasies of her

Of fear and love

The ants of time consume me

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Kid Brother
by: Christopher Scott Bryant
from: Whitby, ON, CA

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