Challenge
Is love stronger than manipulation?
Fairy Tale of Love
We once were more
than just once upon a time.
I clung to your subliminal words
desperately with both hands,
remembering black lashed eyes
manipulating me like putty,
as I wandered desolately
in empty stretches of unpaved road,
my heart helpless in your cage,
frantically peering through
your blue tinged soul windows.
The darkness of you grew cold,
while midnight halted at the gate.
I spoke to you with desperate teeth
clinging onto your threads of dust,
prone bodies on moon’s floor.
I paraphrased your face in
heavy anchors of pain, watching
as pathos grew within my heart,
while smoky nights and loneliness
lingered in fabricated promises,
spitting in longing’s face,
kicked cavalierly to the curb,
my twirling globe of love,
hanging on a clothesline of empty.
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