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Forget It


Nevermind

Forget them, and everything else

I do this for you and you alone

I've only ever bowed at one shrine 

 

Leave me be

Who should expect to understand

I who find movement in your stillness,

the power of the word "she" 

 

It is not plain greed

Ownership defined by ardor

Your care clear, but mind aloof

As if you act on impulse, where is the need?

 

Just a release

I suppose you've seen it before

Just as the unborn child sees the world

I just appear as ravaged, as a beast

 

Forget it

Nevermind my devotion left to idle

Leave my awe to stagnate

Call my need for possesion greed

View me through broken glass,

None of this yet matters

 

Lay me down,

kiss my trembling neck

I will never be all you need, 

but take this

A kiss to return the favor, 

an attempt to recapture 

 

 

Mason Velletta

 

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