Parity

On Reason

she sez,
you're just lonely,
while stroking my shoulders,
you don't really Care
and probably she's right,

but since when
did we need a reason
for this?



i like
the silken, nervedancing, touchability, slideability
your skin offers my fingers as they trace
the paths other fingers, more careless than mine,
have worn into your skin, and you
smile



Freedom
were you born without a thought?
who walks, that never tasted or believed
of love?
who taught you of freedom, that never told you
of briars and desires?
tell me, truthsayer, of reality,
of your abstractions and the beatings of hearts



Morals
where did these morals come from,
when did they snare me such,
mother, what pain you have saved me,
has been trebled by these unpresumed shackles
you were doing your Best,
thanks, anyways.




in the final moments, it comes out,
you look amazing
since I'm never sure
until you're leaving



Victoria
sunlight strokes your hair,
exploding out with all that life, uncontained by
curls, or hairspray, or civility,
unapologizing
hummingbird reason, hummingbird heartbeat
but you're busy looking at Victoria's secret
ah, shame. you victorian invention.





Ache

futility,
never stopped me,
but maybe practice will teach me,
to hold looser, and smile more.