A FAILURE TO DISASSEMBLE ME

you rip me

you are a razor

stuck

digging furiously

damaging my emotions

pain spilling over

into my cognitive dissonance

white-hot pressure

turns your black carbon thoughts

into diamond clarity

your geometrical plans

your elliptical plots

never included me, did they?

your illusion of control

amuses me

you are

an unswerving expedition

seeking pledges of devotion

emotional mortgages

pawned sentiments

financial love

you're a vapor lock

I pry you loose

reluctantly

I terminate your hold

with extreme prejudice

you are a transparent spectre

utterly devoid of meaning

a complete and total failure

to disassemble me

Copyright 1994 John Wesley Mullennix