By Lydia
Date: 2003 Sep 23
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Last One to Know

wordless man with no spoken dreams
how I would you shut up if I let loose
the roar of screams I make walls with
pound your heart until it shook free
from the rusted house you ignore
retreat to when you don't ever want
to leave the dust and decrepit silo

once I thought I could set you free
with fires burning and lights blazing on
in the nights when your voice rang out
with honesty and patience I approached
hopeful to be let past the tigers at the gate
guarding your tenderness from wire prods

but I am the one who needed the integrity
to prevail above all the fears you carried in
buckets of false starts had me living a lie
that only years would reveal as the failure
which maintain me as the Total Knock Out
in the final round after the brass bell rang
to stop the beating twenty minutes before