Marta Orlowska
My heart stoops
To make contact
Falters hissing
Beneath your boot
And goes out suddenly
Like a candle flame
I doubt I’ll ever
Occupy her again
She who is
As inhospitable as Venus,
An intermittent lover,
A full-time holocaust
I swore fidelity
To myself alone
And the debt poisoned
I don’t want for much
Because I can’t live with
The agony of disclosure
In the company of others
I am always someone else
On the bottom it’s clear
That if you don’t chase them
Even dreams will scar
To be invisible
I have peeled
My share of flesh,
Diluted more salt
Than all the oceans
Combined have wept
So long as I am unwilling
I will not be returned
I lost the moment
That we met
What remains
Cannot be spoken of
There’s more blood
Than architecture
But who can blame you
For walking away
When I was only
Half-way there
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