You Dare?

If I burden you with questions,

will your curiosity cease?

will this unclench your jaw?

or would you coward behind prayer?

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If true, I will be undertaken,

to bestow a passion familiar to me.

a woman, or A question.

Are you sure?

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A man, I see, behind my jaded frames,

my unhindered joy,

my undisturbed has been disturbed,

uncanny I see.

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Who are you?

Would you bow like bowstrings?

How high will you leap,

once I have bewildered your lantern flame?

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What is your name?

Have you cursed another before?

Would you burden others with our vehement exchange?

Would you replicate this exchange like clockwork?

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I am not one to bask in your humiliation,

whimpering, and decrepit,

yet, I know your burden.

I’ll uncloak your twilight and you ought to wallow in the jimsonweed.

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I have also been stalked out of places of comfort.

Basked in the reverence of shameful musk.

I too am familiar with the grace of bled violence,

the droplets have navigated my face.

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Sadly, I cannot undo what is,

I cannot unteach what is known,

war has no halt,

and/but we had a hunger.