Love's Waterloo (+1)

Kurt Philip Behm

I looked at you a thousand times

before I saw you once

You never did look back at me

my vision sorely trumped

 

Till that one day I saw you clear

in substance and in form

But still I longed for one more look

where I still got it wrong

 

You’re with me now in all I say

and everything I do

Though never more than what this is…

a lovesick waterloo

 

I wish I could have squinted more

or glanced with just one eye

As stars misled a heart deceived

—my fantasy belied

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)

 

 

The Masque

 

Rhyme

to mask the message

Rhythm

to drive it home

Trapping words

in cadence strong

Cutting

to the bone

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)

 

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 29th, 2022 11:27
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Comments +

Comments1

  • L. B. Mek

    'I wish I could have squinted more'
    those who know
    the depth of this line
    in the context of love
    also know
    how deep, the word 'wish'
    cuts to the Bone...
    (these words hit home, dear poet
    far, beyond their rhyme or rhythm)



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