Thread by @RCdeWinter

#poetry

leaving it

i watched you
for a long time

millennia
no
aeons

before i plucked you from
the soup of supplicants

later you said i ambushed you
but that's a lie

you were in there swimming with the rest

sleek seals with trick routines
all of you trying to outjazz each other
without actually saying

pick me

i liked your nonchalance
you never balanced a ball on your nose
all your energy
was directed toward a different kind
of dexterity

i knew you could deliver

and did
for awhile

you tasted me and liked what you tasted
never fawning
always cavalier
i liked that too

jungle drums killed tv

you set me on fire with your rough tongue
rougher hands
injecting just the right amount of ferocity
into those horizontal sambas
we danced in chords of purplegold

we were a pair of take its or leave its
i thought you understood that

later when the needing began
and i couldn't give what i didn't have
and wouldn't fake it
you cried foul

i shrugged
you had no promises to collect

i delivered nothing but a kiss
goodbye

© 2017 RC deWinter

Published in @LiteraryYard, October 2018
literaryyard.com/2018/10/03/thi…

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