Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Not as Before


Not as Before


What creature, crawled silently in my night
Quietly as a pack of tongued dripping dogs

A pack of cards, a pack of lies, a pack of a thousand whys

Alone, cold as old stone, the frigid fright
Traumatised, stuck to my belly as mating frogs

Not as before, not secure, no more morning’s bright sunrise

Just the breath of her heat, the pounding beat
Beyond a newly painted door

No longer yours, not as before




Harry Mills, Philippines,15th November 2011

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