solidarity too will leak.

you forgot to stay.
i never wanted to leave you there
(it only serves to tempt your aim)
someday the pot stirs, the plot thickens, the clock ticks
and the consistency of our anger thickens

i would give almost anything and certainly
not everything to have you
as i wanted you in the beginning,
to watch you in your moment of insistence, pushing.
but we are still young.

musk and twilight mask my lost enthusiasm.
a thousand folded promises given while
waiting for something else to sell.
i melt icily against you.
i have never wanted less, and ached more.

this kind of day, this kind of morning is leaving us slowly, slipping away.
you are a lovers' poem, to be sure.