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Excuse me I just get so unruly when
The temptress strikes
and the tempest struggles
to please his restless wife
ease the heaving spikes of her waves
rolling out of her mouth
onto his chest
all the compressed cities
she confessed to distressing abreast
her fury when he loved her gently
and then crept out when she slept
A fly on her dresser he dressed and left her
and lying alone in bed she never felt more like a conquest
she was never quite the perfect thing
he imagined her to be
I confess she was never quite a thing
but right now I don't think she'd agree
the day I dug my first dog a grave
I could say with complete certainty
this is all the love I have to give before I die
even if it's not enough for you
It's enough for me
 Dec 2012 Mariam Paracha
Tommy
A cold winter’s night with the moon in full,
The trees rustle, but the wind lulls,
A Lullaby so sweet and melancholic,
Howling through the woods, a song so chronically
Painful to the ears, beauty at its purest,
Encapsulates your fears that everything’s not perfect,

And there you stand,
Shadow of a man,
A creature never to be seen,
Singing along
With the melancholy song,
A poor soul never to be found

The rain it falls and drips through the leaves
As the it storm rages all around your feet,
You run for cover from the lightning bolts,
As they slice their way through the dark and halt
The movement of life in your adopted home,
As you cry for the life you’ve never known

And there you stand,
Shadow of a man,
A creature never to be seen,
Singing along
With the melancholy song,
A poor soul never to be found

And now there’s silence, little old man,
As you stand as still as well you can,
There’s no more rain and crashes of thunder,
Just the branches of trees that were once under
The sky, the mighty big blue,
But now they’re under, under you.

And there you stand,
Shadow of a man,
A creature never to be seen,
Singing along
With the melancholy song,
A poor soul never to be found

— The End —