Poem 025 – Rage
Rage (verb) – feel or express utter uncontrollable anger
Remember (verb) – have in or be able to bring to one’s mind an awareness of (someone or something from the past).
Stop said my wounded heart, I cannot take another hit. Wait said my head, this is ludicrous, silly, just quit.
He whispered my darling through the lush of his lips, Delicious words that scorched; burned bittersweet bliss. He spoke my love with such tender release, Numbed my conscience the ravenous marvelous tease.
If I could climb back through time, slip away out of sight, I would fly back to the time when love was love and all that mattered was the two of us.
Honey dry your tears, don’t cry, Let your smile rise with the eastern sky, Let it warm your belly as you writhe, In highs of sunny days when birds fly.
Your laughter cuts me, punctures flesh and bone, Your stares punch me, scatter focus and prong.
They punch they slap, they hit they kick, But all the while you sniffle you think,
Take the day and drop it in, sprinkle hope to make it sweet, A dash of sadness for lulls that be, don’t worry, it’s still incomplete.
/ˈlɪŋɡə/ verb – stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave.