Closely Distant

Beat down daily by deficiencies and mistakes 
Reminded of the endings that are to come 
Calculating the risks and the stakes 
Caught in a game that's zero sum 

Dancing mentally in a lover's waltz 
Spinning and whirling so beautifully out of control 
Tripped up by the pointed barbs of our faults 
We skirt the edges of the chasms of our souls 

Words spoken and unspoken, a heavy, bruising weight 
Keep us from transcendent bliss 
Instead, crush us into a flat, brittle state 
And hang us over the frightening emptiness of an abyss 

Adamantine, you are cushioned and enveloped by me 
As you lie on me and inside 
For a few ecstatic moments you set me free 
For a few moments I have no desire to hide 

Tobacco and mint flavor your tongue 
And hungrily I lick and taste 
As all of your essence is wrung 
And we lie pleasantly interlaced 

But even connected we are still far apart 
As those secret fears, insecurities and unasked questions intervene 
And so we cut to pieces our own hearts 
As we hide behind our cowardly, loving miens… 
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