Oh, shall I speak to you of longing?



How can I prove an Oscar's worthlessness to me?
Make a hundred cufflinks. With my Grammy make a necklace for yours.
Only a desert tells the worthlessness of gold.
Rare is a devotion greater than that after dehydration.
But sometimes more urgent than thirst is air
Both vital, these begin to depict my reliance upon, or devotion toward you.

I dare not indulge too much in fantasy lest I fool my subconcious self into complacency with false satisfactions which are more distraction than purpose.

I do not wait so much as I lay in wait always beholding thee.

Fear of being accused of breeding over familiarty
Hesitance to overstep yet again.
There's your longing.

I am a strategist. I am a forensic syntaxician
Good, amazing, smart? Oh, no. These are my favorites.

Shall I tell thee how good, amazing, and truly smart thou art?

If by some means to have infected the nervous system
by accident as a barnacle
Yours ideally.

The urgency to tell you is like a bullet wound.

I remain in denial for the sake of my safety.
I do declare that no one even begins to understand.

Longing is a state of spirit and of nervous system.

Crafted by the perceived qualities
Based, in my case, in good judgment:
Thou art actually righteous.


The apparently divine ordeal of bearing such integrity.
Why make a small deal when a big one will do?


Dependence, Necessity. What else??

I could no more philosophize upon my body's need to eat for my survival. Addiction.

If you'd think these words are worthless I should count it an improvement from your former thoughts on me. Truth be told I'd have bettered to uphold to you with spoon against thy cavalry.

For yours, as far as righteousnesses go, is peculiar.
You never seem to fail.
Your intelligence, brilliant like a diamond - is what will give rise to legends of thee. "And a righteous intelligence at that," quoting this poem they will opine

Your reputation precedes you (your prophecy has been foretold). If your monument is not already built, where now do I stand in worship?

How long will I wait for you?
That depends only on you. How much longer will you make me wait?
 A decade is kind of a while.lol

Then make me say it over an altar.

What I've said is that you are the only one who may tell how much longer I am going to have to wait.


Did I not tell thee my faith is eternal?

I pray it is not a hundred years.


Baby, I will wait forever, of course. I would give you the best of me just now. I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to fight.


It's just that I really wanted to say
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Submitted by secretina on December 16, 2023

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Scheme AXBCXD E A BXX CX X FGA X AX F XXE AD X C A HXX X DIG H I G X X X
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 2,543
Words 526
Stanzas 24
Stanza Lengths 6, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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