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Lish in Poetry & Free Verse

Tonight, It’s Her Turn

I'm becoming better at reading

Between the empty lines of your texts

It's getting easier to see

Your cares for me lie only in the sex

And then on somedays even the sex

For you, isn't of any concern

On those depressing days I can see

Only me burns with a needful yearn

Choking on the fiery ashes since somehow I

know

Tonight, it's her turn

I have no right to be jealous, sad, or angry

'Cause you aren't mine to own

Besides, I have someone who's suppose to be mine

Yet he's not mine alone

I don't need to fight with a lesser woman

For your attention to earn

Done enough of that competing shit all my life

Think by now I would learn

But I'm foolish and I'll still try one more text,

Knowing

Tonight it's her turn

Like a childish dream I hold onto hope

For tomorrow to be my day

When I know there's not even the smallest chance

It'll ever go my way

Because when tomorrow finally does come

It's against her skin you'll return

While I lie awake left with heat from desire

That's hot enough to burn

Just another lonely night stuck without you,

'Cause

Tonight it's her turn