This moment of my life <br />I joke about love <br />In you, but the moment <br />i am dropping it <br />Like that famous white handkerchief <br />of leading and deceiving <br />You pick it up and then you tell me <br />Love has bloomed <br />Into a very lovely flower that now <br />I must take and smell and <br />Claim as my own <br /> <br />You know very well that my hands have chains <br />Daisy chains of love <br />Put gently around my neck <br />By you-know-who the woman <br />I call my own, my possession, my home, <br /> <br />You insist that nothing is wrong <br />With loving and anything loved and adored <br />All these are true and sublime and worth <br />The demands of our time <br /> <br />You are wrong there my darling <br />I sometimes say words without my heart involved <br />Words that I just want to say and <br />Do not really mean <br />Look at you, how can you ever believe me? <br />Look at me, how can I ever believe you? <br />With our chains, melanite chains in our hearts <br />We have long ceased loving <br />We have long ceased living <br />That is something in you that I want stopped <br />Do not believe me <br />I am not worth it, not anyone like me is worth it <br />The fight <br />The trouble, this man, this mannequin <br />This bulge, do you still dream? <br />your hands are smirking <br /> <br />Or even the plain thinking at night when you are alone <br />When you are nothing <br />But just yourself <br /> <br />You are still so beautiful! Oh! You are still so beautiful!<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-is-something-in-you-that-i-want-stopped/
