© stephen collings | www.sinisterimage.com

Put you on your soap-operatic
Pedestal only to keep you
From yourself, but from heights
You p u l l e d at the thread
Of sleeves, which once proudly
Bore beating heart, and re-spun
frayed yarns of Romeo in oubliette

whose sparks stymied at source, watched
Yours on strike, or none left to spare

 



 

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 Once you had taken everything but
The kitchen-sink melodrama
I was left encircling noughts
Whilst you lined up exes

If I was too heart to handle,
You were too cold to hold
If you’d let me be the something new,
I’d have taken you blue and old