A Duality Within Which I’m Not Comfortable
Just who are you?
In that heart beats a stranger,
as if imprisoned, a reluctant foe,
yet outside is pleasantry stoked,
the coals burning long after the flames are gone,
and this stranger answers in contention,
takes the reigns in darkened threat, yet
love is posed as ongoing,
a smile, an embrace of warm assent.
This duality is disconcerting,
has my imagination taken me to absurdity,
or is she somewhat mistaken,
not sure which soul is she;
I acquiesce to ambivalence,
uncertainty my bugbear glum,
while she, my love is
so duly sworn to keeping.
Is that shadow I see in her heart,
where I fear to tread,
will never start to poke the bear,
for in her will is steel,
a cold and unerring resolve,
and I get the feeling if I breach it too often,
the truth will rise and I in regret
will plummet to some horrid death.
Yet that smile does captivate,
and passion holds to yearn more moments,
but have I bitten off more than I can chew,
in lieu of what’s afoot,
a time-bomb triggered, a word mistook,
could bury me for sure,
and what was it for,
who is this woman that offers such surety.
The face of an angel, a smile so mellow,
as I wait for that gravelly voice
mouthing tongues, and eyes glowing,
to finally know I am done,
so perhaps I shall not fall for either,
one personality enough to bear,
and leave well enough alone,
not feed the seeds that I have sewn.
Tony DeLorger © 2018
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Disturbing, but well penned, Tony. This love of yours seems narcisstic. Take care.
Thank God I’m not in it! lol Thanks Phyllis.