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I looked love in the eye

quite boldly

even as I

bit at its freshly bound ropes

you made seem special

through try after try

every last tear jerker's hope

fool for you nay

I said not

with such pride anyway

you carried me then fully away

caring not

that you busily bruised my truly

tender hide

using my very own words as ink

for your yet penned play

you wanted me to be yours

where as

I wanted no part of such life

altering course

I begged you to companion sense

you in turn begged me to marry you

post hence

a quick dose of desperately aimed

dullness

rallied to temper my spirit for

adventure long ago

carried my wander lust filled

eye away

I once longed only for that of

which a husband and brood could not

cough up enough to pay

so the debt none all too sadly floats

unreachably by

far too long now gone unpaid

my decision made long ago

can not touch me now

yet nor can I easily touch it

and in such realization

so strangely squandered

feels a most reflecting I

as with it goes dreams

half hatched and visions

bound by a frightened youth's

too miserly procrastinatic say

looking into the past

with a less guarded future's eyes

I all too clearly yet quite

disturbingly see

I was such a priceless fool

for having forced you so strongly

to listen to me

and for that one consequence alone

One now I shall remain..............

(Oct. 9, 1998)