Love Poem: Lexis Affair
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Written by: Jean Marble

Lexis Affair

The air was disturbed 
by wispy soft strings
the tickles uncurbed, 
like hummingbird wings;
the beat in my chest 
it stuttered a spell
and dared risk a rest, 
a moment to dwell.

The stir of his verse 
had fractured my breath
and nervousness burst 
beneath the great depth;
my eyes came to pause, 
my heart came to flutter
all just because 
of words none shall utter.

The thoughts that emerged 
an enemy force
so quickly diverged 
and took their own course;
the tip of a pen, 
the roll of a ball,
reminding again 
that prisons don't fall.

The blocks of mistakes 
with time as a mortar
old dreams can't awake 
I'll not cross the border.
First lessons I learn 
no need to redo
the errors they burned 
more dreams than a few.

A sense of belonging 
had drawn out a sigh
a wisp of that longing 
I've tried to deny;
The shivers I nursed 
for moments in time
caressed by his verse 
a rush of sweet rhyme.

I slept with his lexis 
and loved the embrace
and woke to a nexus 
of strings to displace
but drums of regret 
I just can not hear
as moments of threat 
still whisper so near.

I hugged an illusion 
for feeling I wept
in dreams and delusions 
that silently crept;
the hiss of commotion 
it shook me to reason
reminding emotion 
is personal treason.

It's never that's real 
forever that daunts
the rousing I feel 
persistently haunts
my wits I can't lose 
post lexis affair
alone with my muse, 
loose quills in my hair.