– Shards of Your Affection –
What once we were has broken like glass,
and I am left with no choice but to starve,
or consume the shards of your affections.
I am loyal to your superficial affectations,
these things once simple and natural between us
that now seem so complicated by your fear of my touch.
The closer we come to each other,
the farther away from love we seem to be drifting.
But I will still attend you with my heart in silence.
I will stand by your side when you would cut me away.
I will sheath the sword of my own harsher words
to clean the blood from my tongue
before your kiss someday returns.