By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 16 November 1998

We

Our love has mutated
  into an ugly thing
  scarred and tainted
 rancid in its wrongness
  maybe it was
  a song once
 the chemistry 
    between us
   candles burning
   all weekend long
patio talks
 and nights
 by the fire
 but now it is
 nothing more
  than a suffocating silence
  we're together because
    we
 is all that
    we have