Submissions by cableheart (Mister Rotten)

plodding capitulation -
käufliche Liebe, my sweety.
a fumigating whisper, a silent glare...
tied to none. what a pity!
such a profligate warrant – your smile
admitted to squint into rapture,
that will be relished by many
and cause the ardor to fracture.

***
they delivered the quiet insertion
(failed attempt to respond and disclose)
a sigh or a sob, so secluded
the source of your mute overdose...

***
does such filth still appeal
as it used to allure and enchant?
you snigger, my love...
in it being revealed there is...

I attempt to belong as a hunter, someone standing apart from your entity,
to restrain tautological blunders; yield myself to the sedative’s lenity.
I attempt to belong as a seeker, be of significance on my own right,
but contrary to all these endeavours… I collide with my own despite.

I whip myself on like a horse, trusting failure to be hematobic,
advancing excessive wars, self-sufficient and misanthropic.
under pressure of ceaseless wantage, I obsess about being faultless,
yet I’m at absolute disadvantage, unmindful if I endorse this.

what I yearned...