Submissions by cleone22

please forgive me for withholding out of resentment
my whole hearted response.
now I know, scars come in pairs.
lick your wounds…
here is to your very worst fear:
i let him fuck me--both of us half-starved--in the bed you call "ours."

madly rushing over me like prey and prayer
moments connecting like iron fillings on a magnet
driving me wolf bitch wild
going in for the kill, and yet trapped beneath the muscular ache
of a man
gnawed by his own cannibalistic need to be touched.

unsure of my name but grabbing for a reckless...

The past comes at me:

An echo in a stairwell

A child’s wayward yo-yo

Rolling coins at the laundromat

Pinwheel shadows of a passing car

I can’t get back one second of our love

I’ve grabbed at the air for ropes

Stayed under water too long

Taken pills not subscribed me

Closed my eyes till colors burst from broken vessels

But, O for those moments we had

Wouldn’t you agree

One was too much

A thousand will never be enough?