No. Won

If I asked you to grant me treasures

Worth more than gold

What would you find in the desert blooms?

Watered life and peaceful strife

A chance for greater choosing

Over and under deserved love?

Justice exhumed?

I think you would

Know you might

Take patience too far.

In fondness of such, allow me this arrogance

Prideful and unearned

Dreamt affection.

Salience reworded.

I am a sorry-

-son

-liar.

And you are anything but unkind.

Truly:

Know yourself to be worthy of love in all

respects

and

kinds.

Grasp it.

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Do as you wish, seek what you will.

Love will remain.

Thusly, Mother.

~

No. Too

To break before surrender

To trust despite misgivings

Unabashedly:

The manner in which I admire such courage.

~

No. Tharee

Trust me not, oh brother far mine.

Trust me not, oh sister unkind.

Trust me, I am yours-

-no?

~

No. For

You lied.

God does not care

that I swear or argue

about hair and misgivings.

How can a figment-

~

No. Phive

Nonsensical nonsense is simply sense

unnamed and disregarded.

Unless…

“Double negatives do not count,”

says who?

~

No. Siex

I have licked a Peanut Butter Spoon - the capitalization is necessary.

It’s like summer on my tongue, thick and heavy

humid despite the chill.

It molds like rain, and fills like pain-

-less opportunities at fun.

…I should lick a Peanut Butter Spoon.

~

No. Sehven

Oh saviour unseen, oh messiah unsung!

You died.

~

No. Ate

Rejection lingers in the lungs,

stealing breath,

stealing sun.

~

No. Nein

For why would I be aught but myself?

Doth the eagle swim?

Doth the whale totter?

Forsooth, I am Man.

Forsooth, I am-

~

No. Taen

Eros, to whom I bleed.

His mother, from whom I seek.

Steal not this empty parcel of mine.

Leave its contents - bare though they are - in hands calloused by softest leather and unfelt scars.

Let this heart of hemp and bone

feel itself together-

-alone.