"Tunnel of Love"

by Jeph Johnson

 

Stark sublime remarks
   sound blatant
            under her guise
of being in the dark
      and opening my eyes.
She speaks discreetly
   words resounding with doubt,
questioning mysteries
      I know nothing about.
Confusion
   reduces
this wondrous muse
   to uninspiring woe;
This happens when
   I have to choose
from choices I don't know.
I wave goodbye
to words
like "love"
abandon
feelings
like "touch"
dull
my sense
of knowledge
before it becomes too much
So I dance
alone
without my pride
as madness
fights
with the facts
I hide
in this
tunnel of love
I've crawled inside.
She's the one I belong beside

Author's Notes/Comments: 

circa 1999 

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