LOVE UNSEIZED


I was the classic
damsel in distress

Okay, more like the twit
under duress

Useless
You-less

Then in you strode
Rescued me with finesse
Lightened my load
and showed genuine caress

Your dazzle just hit
I blushed, bit my lip
You unlocked my heart
and that was it

in a flood...
a pulsating rush

all at once
you'd become
My Insatiable Crush

A Knight, at great height
in your manly armour
My stud and quite the charmer

Oh boy, you were some
damn fine karma

We were fleeting, brief

You were my every drama
My grief
So hot for your greeting
Sans all relief

In you I could wallow
Smother like no other

But along came the thief

and just like an unfinished Pepsi
you left me

for another

You got on your new bike
Rode that mother
You'd come and gone
time moved on

I plotted
I was forgotten
I may as well have rotted

Ah, but then...when
into new arms I'd slotted

You returned with an urgency
and quite besotted

Back for your Pepsi
right where you presumed
you'd left me

I learned you burned
Of course I turned

the other way.

Looking back, that was the day.

The pivotal moment

when I was so meant
to embrace your chase
but
quite simply didn't

No really
in retrospect what did I expect?

It was right there
There in my bloody lap

As I reflect
now its just a stupid
dumb-arse face slap

Full of the proud fool I was
I conveyed
nothing could remain

I shunned Cupid
and let stupid reign

Of course my chance
of any remote circumstance
slipped by yet again

With that one decision
a painful incision

I've lived unappeased
endurably
incurably diseased

and curse
this irreversable truth

of squandered youth
and missed opportunities
and of perhaps
that one true love
left wanting and unseized...

(C)