Attrition

From “A Fine Line “

Late spring

Lilac season almost done

Still light at 8:00

Yet the routine kills

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Lavender dreams

Weekend spas

Flowers blooming

Pantiless, in the grass

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You have nothing if you have loneliness

Especially if you’re a sweet soul

Never understood

Appreciated by very few

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She smells the flowers

Rejoices

Enjoys her lone splendour

Still in the nest

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Attrition is difficult

We’re used to being alone

Crying ourselves to sleep

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We bathe in the goodness of newfound friends

Try to let go of the past

But cry sometimes

To feel better

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Gimme ten minutes of happiness

For a day of sadness

A fair deal

It’s so delightful

Liberating

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My dear

Uncover your facade

Lose your constant giving

Receive some admiration

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I study your face

That wicked half-smile

Hiding all your woes

What I would give to make that smile real

Sincere

To liberate your spirit

Untire your bones

Your emotional baggage

Lift you up

Watch you levitate

That unbearable lightness….

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I write as I wake before dawn

Feeling you

Knowing we’ll meet

Embrace

Kiss

In such an unforced, natural way

With complete freedom

We co-exist

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There’s so much to adjustment

But I trust your judgement

And if all that happens stays only in my head

It shall have to be enough

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Attrition

Escape

Freedom

They have found us

At a later age

But we’re eternally young

Copyright Ted Kouretas 2014