holding pattern

queer-with-a-pen

i am the chink in

my own armor,

never quite able to

tamp down that flowering

and burning love

 

and if you were

to ask nicely enough,

that gap would become 

a doorway just for you

 

i would paint that

old wooden door in

your favorite color and

leave a spare key 

under the mat

 

because i desire you,

so much that it hurts

sometimes, and not just

because i’m biting my tongue

to keep the flood back

 

because i desire you,

therefore you are immortal,

and you’ll live forever 

in these words that i’ve scrawled

across the walls of my beating heart

 

and isn’t that a beautiful thing,

that no distance,

no storms,

could ever be bigger

than the love i hold for you?

  • Author: Boaz Priestly (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: December 4th, 2022 02:20
  • Category: Love
  • Views: 13
  • User favorite of this poem: James Michael.
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Comments2

  • jarcher54

    Your first two lines are truly inspired! What a felicitous way to say that thing we feel when we feel weak and foolish.

  • James Michael

    Another cracker of a love poem, as the Brits might say. You’re on quite a roll. May Christmas treat you well my friend!

    • queer-with-a-pen

      I am quite good at falling hard and fast, it seems. Wouldn’t be much of a love poet if I weren’t.

      Wishing you holidays that are merry and bright, my friend!



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