Monday Poetry - Distancing

this is an older poem - one that plays with the impact of certain words, how they are treated (symbolic irony there if you read between the lines...heh) and pause breaks, before and after certain words. This one really works better in audio, so pretend you are HEARing it when you read it. :D

DIStancing

lip curls

disdain
a sneer
so smooooooooth
and slicing
i won't feel
the cut –

?startled?

**oh yes**
when blood begins to
flow.

your grail
from which both our lips
drank deeply

~worshipping~
infused
enlightened
heartbound and binding – then

!crushed!

so shiny it shatters

GROUND
underfoot.

frozen

me – my gaze
unforgiving
no more, no.

NOT now

never again
will your gifting
give pain
scald and burn –
….despair…

the past has gone up
in flames.

Pass the marshyMELLOWs
If you please?