love is a river ...

love is a river love is a river it roars all around you and slashes over you in a strange eddies of unrecognizable currents a torrential force that smashes you into vaporous kisses rising like steam and falling like cool drizzle all over your body where you lay pinioned under the debris by the shore (and kiss me here and kiss me here and kiss me here oh god, yes, kiss me always) love is a promise spilling over lips of sweet poison that infects every part of you in an instant and leaves you for dead on a battlefield of feathers where you lie spread beneath a second body bashing and crashing above and into you wanting only to revive you or finish the murder who can tell? who can tell? (tell me you'll love me always, tell me you'll never leave, oh god, yes, tell me how to love you) love is a hanging tree where you sway in the wind like a child's rag doll caught on a wire fence it chokes you from life constricts every blood vessel until you succumb or surrender to the will of another until you choose to die or choose to die and just when you find the strength to speak you are cut free and fall to the ground where you curl into a ball of pain with barely enough strength left to whisper (i never loved you, i never loved you, oh god, no, i never loved you at all) Copyright © Kennedy James, 2009. All rights reserved.