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sweet temporal

disfavored kiss

why only the fiercest possible lover

could ever deny you even the smallest

fault's wish

as a clever way to reprimand your

alarming intent

with but one tiny flick of love's

searing remiss

desire is little more than a dossier

for danger

but such an oh so inviting refreshment

for the flesh

yet her shivery for runner

the barest hint of temptation

as we know it

holds no peaceful council to be

addressed

with the will of each his own

personal god in tow

the fearful heart denounces

such needs that rail

yet flutters just so

in her silent frenzy

to somehow so very secretly prevail

as each lowly valley can do no more

than helplessly envy the next hill

these none too subtle masks

we wear before each thy common

fellow man

are masks made from our own

conflicting angles and haunting

hues of misunderstand

so for one to deliberately tempt

one's best out of nothing more than

the pool of his worst

begets little more than ill council

confusion boiled and dyed in every

last offered flimsy excuse

which leads this charred wary

participator to believe

that some adult games of the mind

should have warning labels on their

catch fall dangers carefully applied

to them

for all their more unsuspecting players

to find...............................

(Aug. 13, 1998)