I have not known a single day of peace
I walk with an erect sword
Ever present to the enucleation of
that perfect random stranger
I know now what you expect me to say
And I won’t bother hiding
I’ll tell you what’s on my mind
Life has me unrequited
“I’m perpetually unloved”
But I’ll share that transparent umbrella with you
Even if I’m soaked. I’ll offer you shelter.
Kindness unsignified.
Beauty, my beauty hidden in deep perfectly arched shadows
It wouldn’t matter how good you are
And I’m still shivering
Go ahead… feel it
The pangs of birth and that yellow amorphous shape
With perfect calmness
I studied your feminine form
My pen can’t keep its stillness
Dynamic, like the heart which moves backward in time
Tachyons of physically impossible velocities
I have traveled on your bony curves,
Wearily, your thighs offer sleep
And my hands always find their way on your breasts
I have lost the desire to love you, but I imagine a flame somewhere
Burning deep within these ravenous black eyes
The new skin grows
Numb and harder to pierce
Life is like unrequited love,
You can’t deny it and it never gives you anything back
Perhaps ordinary gestures are better than grand ones
Maybe that kiss went too far,
And ended mid-sentence
I’ll cherish your strawberry flavored chapstick
leaving behind your scent in my mouth
These endorphins were created by you
And they know you
Well versed by you
Spheres of weird music
Centered around that effigy
Of paraphiliac fingerprints
I know of this place
Where I’m uneasy
I’m not troubled. I’m not at peace.
The stillness is off putting
like waiting for things to go wrong.
© A.R. Minhas 2016
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