dark_uneven_way
werewolf the twisting terrain,
promises touch,
support, and drops off
in light, to emptyness,
to a gasp, or a quivering,
an expectation voided
and replaced as suddenly,
with hungry lips, with a mouth
that talks in another tongue.
Full of hushes and sighs,
leading me on, taunting me,
comforting me, allowing
me to rest in my terror,
to find safety as i become
more and more loss,
to surrender my meager self,
to the vastness of night,
of your night.

During the day i walk
and say familiar things
to familiar faces, or strive
to make strange faces familiar,
and yet i cannot escape my you,
i cannot escape the impatience
and anxiety i feel at the sight
of so many clear and plain hills,
of so many houses and lives
dissected in light. I long to be lost,
in a world that holds no finishes
or traps, a self contained void,
a car that is sweltering, that
is fogged and hides all but a vague motion, like the prelude to a funhouse swindle.

Inside we arch, we turn, gymnastically longing, dramatically sighing and making ourselves known, we see how many ways
we can arrange the insides
so that from the outside, to the world it seems
the same.
To us, it is the world that seems the same. It is a memory that haunts me, that informs each meager day, each moment of rest. Were those nights, those passionate kisses
that gave new birth to old nerves
all a dream? They haunt me. If ever i see you again in that dark uneven way, i will kiss you extensively. I will try to unmask the faceless, i will capture the universe and hold it in my false cage, to find comfort in fear, to imagine the racing of my pulse as if it were the beat each day passes to.
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