you are the poet

my shoulders pull back

i look you in the eyes,

take a drag and look away

my thighs want to betray me

but still i hold them still

i am afraid of you

you are the poet

somewhere in this room laughter (yours?)

innocent as a boy

kind and soft

i want to break you,

rock you,

take you to your knees

you are the poet

i've read you

and loved each brutal word

but i knew,

there was something in you i despised

something i despised

you are the poet

far too easy to believe

because of course - you are sincere

you are sincere with everything you do

more than most, more than most

and just as quickly

a lie

you are the poet (stay back)

i'll search these pages if i need you,

you lay there like a mattress

left out on the street

blood stained

cut open

and i'mmm jusss- so f u c k i n g tired

you are the poet

watchful, wary, careful of me

your gentle bravado

with what looks like,

an erect tail between your legs

you'll stay away

keep a distance

you are the poet

we are timid

we are beasts

in my eyes

you see

everything pure and good

everything horrible and grotesque

you are the poet

you see YOU

and i am afraid of you

so selfishly hungry - so easily bored

and i know, that should we come for each other

only one of us will be left to write of it

and you are the poet.