I hunger for perfection in this garden of decay
I whisper words of dream and doubt that live, then waste away
I have a name that you don't know
that you will never speak
yet from its sounds, it's gaping holes
do hints of answers leak
and all your words and every kiss,
all the hungers of your heart
hold not a wing aloft to fly
but tear them all apart
yet our desires' ecstasies
unburdened by regret
leave us as walking wounded
with our tears still warm and wet
and all these tenders steps we take
one after another
lead us not closer to that myth
but further from each other
love's but a dream,
an idle theme
from some opera of the damned
and knows not flesh
nor heaving breast
nor what our thighs demand
with every touch, with every hug
with every careful stroke
in every flick of tongue on tongue
this I in me awoke
I fall in kisses, fall with worms
fall from a grace, my own
and lie and cheat and speak untrue
as if her love I'd never known...
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felt resurrecting this one
I enjoyed it too much to just let it rest in peace....
so here's some bad poetry, from some bad poet