seventy two. it was just a kiss

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whilst sunlight slides through the shutters,
softly silver white in the gleams --
i say, how i cannot love you the same
today as years ago.

i pressed thoughts of you to my pillow
playfully, and reach down through my thighs
though i was then haltered: by a vision
of dyed roots and careless legs
carcass-spread in the nightgrass --
a stranger's scent seeped onto your sheets
which you slept in soundly still.

i make myself sick over the number   3
and can never sleep again for
you loved me less: left for dead in an old dream,
long since stale and faded by the early daylight
that streamed through my window:
i cannot love the same, not again, not tonight.

(7th October 2018)

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(7th October 2018)

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