Etude II

A Poem by Moi

The stuff three-in-the-morning is made of.

Puberty sets an uneven stage,

you were a great storming bush,

sifting your identity between your roses and your thorns.

Where in my life

I just begun to speak like pubes

you had exploded magnificently in yours,

(I thought you were brave for streaking)

Livewire, livewire;

frightened by your joking coos,

I thought you understood the language of my whimpers.

The Morse code of batted lashes.

“Ravish me?”

I thought you deciphered my pallor when

I was convinced you kept me

somewhere in your taut chest.

Your blue eyes.

Lulling with the vibrations of your voice

deeper and stronger than mine

(by a year).

Waking up abashed from a dream of a tryst in a rose garden.

You rushed up against me:

you called me “honey.”

You deluged me, I was sopping.

When we are overwhelmed we love?

I couldn’t budge, I kept quiet

and munched in the dark of a closet

on the crumbs of your coquettery.

O! the seeds of your flirtations

outgrew my wits, fertilized by your smile and my self-denial.

And when I broke through,

sick of clutching pillows to simulate your bosom,

when Eros gave me the romantic tourettes

you laughed it off,

and fought the moment with platitudes the girls must’ve heard,

and swam away.

But now, my voice is the lower. But now,

all that glitters is not just your eyes.

It is gone. What happened?

You grew dull and distant. And though
misunderstanding bred my singing,

'tis now wisdom who carries the notes.

© 2008 Moi

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LadyLove

Sad how some must play with the emotion of love as a weapon to bash the heart with at the moment it wants to bloom. Your poem suggests that you somehow knew you were being toyed with and tried to avoid showing your growing emotion to the object of your eyes for fear that what you knew would be a reality. But at some point you let it reveal itself...and you got hurt. This is good for expressing the futility known and yet cast aside in the hopes you were wrong...but, alas, were not. Makes you gun shy, doesn't it? Take care.