Longing's Demands

by

Frank Valentyn

You attack and confront continuously
yet demand succour of reassurance
but cannot offer comfort's haven

You reduce and criticise
minimise, accuse and derogate unceasingly
yet wish yourself to be assuaged
enveloped in a love demanded
from the breaking broken
unhealed by continuous stoning
forgetting, denying
that in all broken form
there is child
longing for stroking
as you yourself too, would be stroked

Who will it be
to unthrow the first self-aimed agony
who bigger, not than other
but greater than former self
lay aside self-injury
by injuring the other?

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Why don't you look at Hath Thou A Lapdance?
by: Travis Ray Cole
from: Chicago, IL, US

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