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Perhaps it is kinder not to write a commentary on this poem; if not for you...for me.


When First I Trusted You
Laying there against my flesh
The shape and texture of a fantasy
Pressing full against my skin...
I welcome first the vision...
Then the touch...
And feel it enter in
It is not like a piece of glass,
Not like the burn of acid's touch;
Nor like the cold and driven rain...
But...as it pulls from out of me
In measured, slow, assurity...
Words cannot tell the pain
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