By slug
Date: 13 November 2000
before the kiss
There is a moment right before the floodgates
open
and lust spills out like vices from Pandora's box,
when half-open eyes focus
on half-open lips
and the world's movement is moving closer to the edge of the abyss...
an abyss unscary and undimensional
an abyss welcome and tempting...
...and we never turn away from temptation...
but we do
and you do
and i do
and we're caught in that half-moment of half-bliss and half-awareness.
i know how i feel.
i know what i want
...but going after it...
and the world would stop.
the pitless stomach that i swear i have is (holding me back)
full of dragonflies
and fireflies
and fire.
i'm on fire
i'm burning up
i'm burned
out
and you...
you...
you...
anonymous,
eponymous
you...
wait on the other side of consiousness
for me to come and get you.
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