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[2010]


You don’t make me smile

You don’t make me frown

Instead you spin me

Around and around

What do you want?

What do you need?

Where is this going?

Where will it lead?
My eyes have been begging

For weeks upon weeks

For words to emerge

Emotions to leak

You can’t seem to say

What I need to hear

Perhaps you don’t feel it

And that’s what I fear

I don’t want to ask

I already know

But what you aren’t feeling

Is not what you show

You need and you take

You have your way

You’re physically starving

And I your buffet

Our bodies connect

In continuous bliss

Yet something is missing

Away from that kiss

Actions speak louder

Than words, you say

But I am no athlete

I cannot play

A game with no rules

Or minute expectations

Where nothing amounts

But bursts of sensation

You’re so far above me

I strain to see

Those eyes that are gazing

In lust down at me

The bluest of blues

Deep as the sea

If I drowned in them would

You rescue me?

I don’t know why

Those eyes are on me

Isn’t there somewhere

They’d rather be?

Isn’t there someone

Who better deserves

Those big bulging arms

That tingle my nerves?

Isn’t there someone

More clever, more funny

Someone who’s taller

Perhaps even stunning?

I’ve played along

Though I’m not sure why

Perhaps I convinced myself

I could get by

On doses of touch

And intimate nights

On firey passion

Devil’s delight

But days have amassed

Weeks have transpired

Still your heart and your mouth

Remain uninspired