In your blank smile
I paint by meaningless pigments
unto this parched canvas
The quintessence
.....Of love.....
.....Of lust.....
.....Of deception.....
.....Of trust.....
And when my voluptous easel moves
With graceful force of a lava rush
A volley of colored bullets fired
From cossacks' blunderbuss
Fall down wasted on the wounded ground
.........So i..........
....................
................
....*blurghk*....
................
....................
.....Cough the bloody mary I drank to.....
...Use as my impromptu color red...
...So please shut up...
Dont argue with my drunken reasoning
Never is a poet done immortalizing
Neither will the work be less burdening
And yet in this moment of a Herculean task
.....I broke down.....
....Forgive me....
....I stole a moment from your lips....
© 2006 Tetch de la Cruz
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