pencil me in
for ten minutes of your time
a lackadaisical remorse
prods me to confess
I could never miss you
like you'd wish
as your weathered brow
my own eye
it does not define
but beseeches the cross in my heart
to plunge your thoughts only further
into my imagination's vacuum
I am credited for being caught
hung from a standard
for which another committed
such emotional crime
and the former claim of love
once professed
so cowardly stands
hunkered over
between us now
a convulsive misfit
never able to ascend and bind us
over to the next level
respect to love
committed instead
limerence faded
leaving us
cold
and ever to be damned...........
(June 20, 2000 1230am)