Would You Believe?

by sibyllene   Jul 30, 2006


I don't need your hands
the way that, soft as ashes,
they paint my chin, my lashes
with their touch.

(A crumbling charcoal faintness, dust to dust.)

I don't need your words.
The hollow-sounding sighs
the discourse from your eyes
declaring much.

(A whisper and a song proclaiming trust.)

I don't need your lips.
No, not your lips on mine,
like poetry and wine,
enough to burst.

(A fragile beating heart within a dove.)

I don't need your want.
Not the tight entwining
a desert flower pining
rife with thirst.

(A timid lie incarnate in our love.)

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    by debbylyn

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