By Tony Spivey
Submitted by tonyspivey
Date: 2003 Feb 09
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My Love for You

My Love for You

My love for you is not a reverence
nor magniloquence
that drapes you in bright white
gowns nor paints you with wings.

It is not held in a daydream
that sits alone at a fountain
watching pigeons peck thin air
beneath a marbled ghost.

My love for you is a licentious beast
wild as muscadine vines
that dangle fruit beyond the reach
of prodigious hands too lazy to climb.

It is marvelously wicked and painful
treacherous as the sea
more bold than a righteous peddler
selling air already breathed.