This Dissembling Man...

Trod thru three

score orbitz with air

tight (hermetically sealed)

lid on his emotions bare

reft of evincing

concern and/or care

ring forever guarded against

incursions upon fragile as chinaware

psyche foregoing giving

healthy breathing room

never to dare

risk challenging discomfort zones

skirting, hemming, and hawing

deliberately averting, shying,

sidestepping away against

welcoming awkward adolescent

romantic experience, thus

never playfully trying to ensnare

and/or allowing, enabling,

and providing gamesome

opportunities providing willingness

tubby triangulated ascending

ark hay yick teenagehood,

when deux dozen, foursquare,

nor eighteen candlebox birthdays,

nonetheless hungrily glare

ring with salivating

envy peers that hare

tuff hoar did gather

their rose buds...despite,

or perhaps because raging

testosterone overtook coy

demure lassie tude surrendering,

whence young womanly

primal urges let machismo insnare

whereat discovering prickly

"beau" vine love on par

with being a millionaire

despite tiffs that,

tested one's mettle quickly

learning the vital lesson

to turn/beat cutting

edge sword into plowshare

setting the figurative stage,

when feathering one's

nest to prepare

for legal covenant,

(a death do me part

binding resolution) endeavoring

to sustain a lifelong

commitment however difficult and rare.