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To Never Know What Love Is

By Michael Dennis Rivers

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

Later you see that those big bright “elations” Are not all you thought they were. Their “shine” dims after a while And eventually becomes dark, even black Like the rot on your teeth, so close Yet so abhorred. Time… time buddy, That’s all it takes and then it takes you. And all the love you think you ever had In your pissy little life turns out to be just So much leaky goo oozing out of your Sorry corpse. A corpse that, while it stalked This sad planet, never, never knew what love was Or ever had it... Sad, sad thing… to beat about A drum and never hear the boom, boom, boom. Never know what the moving hands and heavy Strikes on the skin were all about. Written March 12th, 2002 © on Mar 12 2002 01:30 PM PST, same as above   0 • 8

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