By Ali
Date: 2006 Oct 01
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The Fragile Stops

I wish you could (would)
love me less.  It would be easier
that way, right?  Right.  Yeah.
That's what I thought.  

But what to do with the remnants,
the slipping songs, the fragile
stops and starts? No--
The moon just bows her head, insisting
that this is my mess
to save.  But Creation
and desecration--
how alike they seem!

It must be me.  I know it.
But you...you won't believe it,
receiving it, in discord, disowning
the very ambrosia of Truth.
I want you gone; I want this done.
I don't know if I ever loved you.
If I did, I don't know
what clock stopped my heart,
only to nourish yours.
And I just can't--

I can't look at you, anymore,
looking at me, like that.
I wish you loved me, less.