Branded

I wish

You weren’t

As widespread

And easily available

As the brand you represent.

You should have slammed that door

I did not hear the door slam

When you left me for my best friend

I was lost in my painted

Kaleidoscope, going round

My crazy private carnival

Lit up by the brilliance of us

That I built up in my head

Swirling magic, always aglow

You closed that door too slowly

Maybe you hoped I’d never know.

I love the way you love me

I love the way you love me

When you hold me up towards

The shimmering moonlight

Never letting me out of sight

Your gaze a caress, soft

Yet unrelenting like your

Touch, which skims slowly

Over skin, leaving it tingling

Wanting more as you kiss me

Incessantly, leaving me weak

With your loving, your hands

Your eyes, your commands

Unnerving, demanding

I love the way you love me

Pepper

I want to do to you

What pepper does

Creep up on you

Like pepper does

Take you by surprise

Like pepper does

And make you cry

Like pepper does

Words (written) last longer than love does

Even as you

Wrote of love

(Yes, even then)

Even as we were

Still entwined

(Or so I felt)

Even as my soul

Submerged itself

In those words

Even as my eyes

Eagerly drank in

Your love

Even then

Did you know

It would end

That I’d be left

With nothing

But letters

A raging fire

Then silence

Emptiness

Wondering

If I should

Trash or burn

When all I do

Is crash and

Yearn

Even then,

Yes, even then,

Did you know

Did you know

We would end

Even then?