Settling Down
It was a frenzy. Gimme love, gimme love, gimme love.
You there, or you, or maybe even you. Oh, you.
Yes, you. A fantasy come to life, every attribute
I desire. Carry me away to your bower and love me.
The reckoning is painful. Tears enough to sink an
aircraft carrier. A flurry of activity and here’s another,
willing, loving, except he wasn’t. Controlling, manipulative.
Come out of the shower, wonder where the fuck I’ve gone.
Pick up a novel, begin to read. Is this me? Jesus, is that
my photograph on the page, the camera the written word?
That same frenzy, struggling to purchase undergarments,
despising the young: hard bodies and so much fucking time.
Finish the final chapter, pass the mirror, back up and look again.
Love me, she says. Hold my hand. Read to me. Scrub the
kitchen floor, take out the trash, make a necklace, write a poem.
I am your own true love. When have I ever let you down?
©MCM 2018
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