This Ain’t Love

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This poem is a fickle mistress, a wandering
soul. She might stay awhile, and smile. She

might go home to the moon at any moment.
She’ll leave a note, but only the most tre

-bled clefs, no rest, no selah. She’s got a mind
of her own and lipsticked lips that say she’s

a gypsy girl, a swirl of indigo on a disappearing
page. The gist? She’ll jilt you, tilt you sideways

and leave you wanting. Haunted. Daunted be
-yond what you can bear. She’ll wear your shirt

and the scent of her will linger forever. She’s a
goddess, and you’ll long for her long dark hair

until you can no longer breathe, nor believe
there is anything else in the world but her sound

-less stare. It’s time to quit her, sit her down and
say the tirade of things on your too-full tongue,

lash her with words and switch and pitch her
back where she belongs. But you won’t. Oh, you

won’t. Because she’s a temptress, a seductive sylla
-bled siren whose song you must swallow whole,

whose soul has sifted into your bones, in sacred
befuddled bliss. And if this ain’t love, what is?

 

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Poetic Asides November Chapbook Challenge, day 28.