By Galadrial
Date: 2002 Aug 16
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Slip Away Woman

Oh you want to catch my hair,
pull me near,
mutter polite indecencies,
and want me to quench a moment
of empty pushing out
the part of you you call full.
I may blow stardust in your eyes,
move a moment like Salome,
and lick my lips to catch your eye---
but we both know the dancing truth.
You have no wish to touch this skin,
I am simply the moment's portal
and you'd sooner have me
without the heart---
an Aztec version of the Stepford wife
once the priests finished their job.
And I will not have you
in the messy of my life,
so we both know that when you reach
all you will touch is the cobweb of a dream.
You cannot be my lover---
and all I am to you
is the Slip Away Woman
you wanted for an instant
in a lifetime of wanting.