Love Poem: Page Forty Five
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Written by: Corey Ross

Page Forty Five

I'm set apart from them so I 
decided to set the standard, and it 
just might be the same reason I'm 
having trouble handling it, so I ask 
myself does she really have to be 
damn near perfect when it's clear 
you got flaws, emotions that go up 
and down like a seesaw and 
promises you're sure to break like 
laws. So I segregated me from them 
like Jim Crow, my expectations are 
high but still I hang my head low, if 
I don't make good on what I say 
then obviously it was all for show, 
my vision is tainted I'll gladly admit 
it, looks like my past speaks to my 
present so I'm still a victim of my 
own sickness, I should take my own 
advice right, and admit when I'm 
wrong but what I long for seems so 
outta reach and even tho God made 
that covenant with man he still 
deemed it necessary to fill that void 
we were feeling with a female, that 
one that makes us get back on the 
right track when it's obvious by our 
lonesome our train de rails when we 
try to do it on our own, looks like I 
should be the one privileged to be in 
her presence because with all my 
issues I know in her arms is where I 
can say there's no place like home