#279 the moon is ripe again already
the moon is ripe again already\nit seems like just yesterday\nyou turned away and goodnight\ni waved but here you are again\nvenus has left you icy and pale\nyour dusty smile hides eons of\npain cursed to die and be born\nagain every almost thirty days\nnever enough time to love in\nreturn always the ashen object\nof desire never the warm touch\nof commitment only the lewd\nhowls of wild lunatic gratification\nforever you light the secrets of\nmyth and longing the eternal\nvoyeur your heart breaking\nwith each gasp and lovemaking\nyou can only reflect not\nradiate it is all someone else\u2019s\nnot yours you long for release\nbut you are pulled closer as\nyou struggle to escape the seas\nyour sole unrequited love need\nyou their rising and falling not\nenough to seduce you yet you\ncannot give them up so you\nspin and spin endlessly you\nturn and turn again and again\nand i will be here i understand\nand we both know there\u2019s nothing\nwe can do soon you will decline\nthen swell forever miscarrying\nyour infertile womb still keeps\nit\u2019s secrets only you know what\nlove really means it is absence\nthat defines what you are meant\nto be\n\nepw 1.24.08 perrysburg, oh