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Letting You Go...

Kurt Philip Behm

I spend my days
in celibacy unchosen
living the desperation
we share

Anguished in the knowledge
that needing you unbroken   
transcends the sentence
of this chair

I hear your words, I feel your touch
imprisoned by our love
and wish to free you from this pain
to meet again above
 
My memory holds each tryst endeared
your beauty most sublime
to relive as I stay in place
—virility confined  


(The New Room: July, 2022)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 10, 2022

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Scheme XAAB XAXB XCAC XXXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 430
Words 86
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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  • Dougla$Irishman
    Dougla$Irishman
    This heart searching poem spoke to me, of a true love shared for a lifetime, severed by life's cruel fate of one now missing !
    Wouldn't it be nice if we died together, avoiding all the heartache for the one left behind !
    True love never dies, even for a lifetime., only memories prevail ! 
    LikeReply1 year ago

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