Is This Love?
Your hand scythes
up and down, up and down,
flickering in the redbluegreen of
the TV screen.
Flesh cracks on flesh, leaving
redbluegreen handshadows that
slowly fade.
The sharp, sweaty, alcoholic musk of
your anger and lust reaches
out from the next room as I
Creep away from the muffled sobs
and boxed laughter
and scamper with the rats up
the cold steps.
I wonder, as the night breeze
caresses my shivers,
Is this love?
Is this what his moans promised me?
Is this what his body pledged to mine?
I want to seize your hands with my own
and shout, "Stop! She's my mother!
I love her!"
Instead, I draw my hands to my stomach
to feel life fluttering,
and I wonder:
When he loves me,
like you love her,
Will my own daughter love me, too?
Copyright ?2002 by Stephen M. Larson
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up and down, up and down,
flickering in the redbluegreen of
the TV screen.
Flesh cracks on flesh, leaving
redbluegreen handshadows that
slowly fade.
The sharp, sweaty, alcoholic musk of
your anger and lust reaches
out from the next room as I
Creep away from the muffled sobs
and boxed laughter
and scamper with the rats up
the cold steps.
I wonder, as the night breeze
caresses my shivers,
Is this love?
Is this what his moans promised me?
Is this what his body pledged to mine?
I want to seize your hands with my own
and shout, "Stop! She's my mother!
I love her!"
Instead, I draw my hands to my stomach
to feel life fluttering,
and I wonder:
When he loves me,
like you love her,
Will my own daughter love me, too?
Copyright ?2002 by Stephen M. Larson
Read more poems by Stephen M. Larson at Acoustic Words!
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