A meeting in 2005 - Poem

Restless eyes

a hug, a greeting

manic pacing abounds

around town

buildings like dresses

tall, voluptuous

I’m flattened by my possessions

food right into a smile

food left uneaten

stomach full of bile

tongue tied

my mind fried

a mine field

Why am I here?

Why are you?

circles in the sky make me

feel small

makes me feel smaller standing next to you.

Only pubs and churches are open

the broken prayer

boys practicing heavenly verse

in time

they chime

when your hands fold into mine

words on the TV more interesting

than the words on my tongue

I hold them in, I try to hold them in

but they are only silenced by your lips

a cloudy head on my stomach

that’s full of knots.

I watch you. I look at you. I stare at you.

Realise you are not you.

You are not the man I knew.

And I am in a stranger’s house.

Your talking of trivia makes my life trivial.

Hungry eyes

a hug, a brush of the hand

a spider’s presence

could not halt the inevitable

of a stairway, of not saying goodnight

of a guestroom

untouched

I wear your body

similar

to a boy

I knew before.

Your kiss too clever to be new

I open a weeping sore

I shiver, moan, cry

there I lie

staining the sheets

a physical reminder

of a pain unexpressed.

Could I have been more wrong?

I thought there was something

I thought I saw

but I’m a bore

in search for more

there’s nothing than what is under

your shoes

I have no clue

we swing on roundabouts and

race on swings

words belong to another time

moments cannot live longer

than now

“You’ll live”

I guess I will

I guess I have

no choice

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