Submissions by Amalgam

I defeated dragons and even demons.    
I rescued whole villages.    
My hands quarried stone for mighty keeps.    
Minstrels in neighboring kingdoms still sing of my deeds.    
I was fearless!    
I was bold!    
I was powerful!    
A proud Knight of the Realm.    
     
You are pure and righteous,    
Delicate and refined.    
How can I leave you    
At the mercy of the harsh world?    
Afraid to lose you,    
Afraid we’ll perish,    
Now barely conquering table manners after a fitful sleep.     ...

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Apart    
       
I toil for luxurious fleeting moments of romantic embrace,        
But the eye-blink joys we share only rarely outweigh      
The agony of dwelling so separately.      
       
I cannot resist the yearning in your gently whispered entreaties,        
Nor the hurt in your resentful haranguing.        
My absence compels your desperate alternations of kind and cruel.        
       
I yield to My Love,        
But will the joyful reunion of our...

You grind nasty bugs into paste –  
Or at least you used to.
Your informants and collaborators sustain you.
Are you just along for the ride?
You tell yourself you’re retired
And perhaps you are.
 
A hero and an anti-hero,
A comic book character
Who threatens,
But is non-threatening.
Your gnashing teeth menace evil-doers,
Afraid to test your mettle.
 
You have nettles,
That cannot be removed
Without getting your fingers pricked.
Big pricks abound.
It’s a Pacific Rimjob,
A not...

The Road from here to there
Is as long as life to death
And travels the road to Hell.