Dark Poetry Prose Poetry July 21, 2003 Dark Poetic Prose

7-21-03 monday 8:37pm brick NJ

down. further still. like sleep only less forgiving. like the drink you just keep on drinking.

you say things because that's what you're thinking. it's hard not to. when you make it so easy.

laugh. really laughing. as if time has forgotten me. smiling. seeing someone smiling with me.

so much more than it should be and still we keep on going. choice has abandoned me. so close without even touching. if such a need should arise i will try to put it aside. thoughts do come that aren't appropriate. gently nudge them back into the shadows. but they don't die there. instead they continue to grow.

it's so obvious. so right there burning between us like a lightning bolt. it was just a hand. just a shove. or so i've hoped. so we've told ourselves.

down again. my one direction. longing for that which i can never have. so in love with losing. so apt to hurt myself when i can.

i try to hold it in, but i want you. want you to want me. i cling to my morality by slender threads. i want to taste you. to be tasted.