rearing up from the lingering mist
fleetingly shimmers
a most memorable experience
sweet yet bitter infliction
suffer no jest
for you are but an all too attractive
addiction in the flesh
and true addicts for the most part
as you know are unable to anti themselves
up to such telling claim
unlucky contributors that they are
(poor sods!)
ah, but I do so thrive best when thoroughly
amid your winner takes all game
why, I've played it nearly all my life
though the wounded braiding that pauses
for such sexual stirrings shared
taunts us all the better in our
undisclosed fears
all quivering and a muck
I ask none too bravely
was it all for me and my fertile
imagination's fair or would you confess
owning rights to 'The Endless Same'
or rather any other willing participant
who volunteered
such scattered scars upon the soul
to you alone I so selflessly bared
as my flagrant naivety
blew off your shocking confessions
with little time or inclination to spare
such depth out of focus is quite difficult
to attain
ah, but for it to be mutual
why that is practically unheard of
in such magnificent mind I've found
a true to the moment friend
in whose heart
a deep abiding spiritual love I thought
I'd lost for my fellow man
and yet alas I was wrong
I am capable of locating my own kind
so thank you I think
as so very terribly enchanted indeed
too, too often becomes the bitter brink
madness
love's own self made potions for those
absolute beginners
we've stolen for ourselves
a myth you know..............
(March 13, 1999)