Intimacy

 

Intimacy
A Poem by Raederle Phoenix
Written in 2004
Sophomore Year

Cold, pilled, bed sheets...

Old, stale, sweet treats...

Queer, blank, gray walls...

Hear my love calls...

Sold my heart away...

Saw you leave today...

Tears on my part...

Fears in your heart...

Told me; “Let go.”

I simply replied; “No.”

Fears on shallow ice...

Here’s my old life;

Laughter, love, lips, lust...

Lingering light; now dust...

Aching ashes, boiling blood...

Sauntering still, murky mud...

Lies in your eyes,

Sweat in my thighs,

All now broken ties,

My love never dies.

— Raederle Phoenix

2004

Note: I wrote this poem in my head, line by line, repeating them to myself as I walked home from school. This was written a short time after my first love broke up with me. I was utterly heartbroken and began each day with a heavy ache in my chest which followed me all day and was still there when I went to sleep.

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