By Camelia Lissenhold
Date: 2009 Nov 08
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I Said Yes.

It wasn't for lack of attraction
That I kept you hanging.
I was trying to give birth, you see
To a love that could not be conceived
Much less carried to term.
What could I tell you that could possibly explain that?
Thus the excuses, the puttings-off, the faux reasons why not
But when you called last night
I knew that to say no would be to raise my finger
To a benevolent universe repeatedly, gently
Trying to set me free
And so finally...