By wistful
Date: 2001 Oct 04
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No Escape

Run away?
Okay.
Run where?
Anywhere.
Come, escape with me
Free. . .

Reality is overrated.
Numb the pain with casual distractions
Sex works.
Force fed fun.
Constant exuberance, noise, chatter
People, parties, frenetic energy
Midnight poetry.
Sleep late, reprobate
Run.

But no distance, no speed
No noise nor diversion
No activity or passivity
Can help me
Escape me.

And you, my love,
As pleasant and pleasurable
As your touch, your smell,
your laugh can be.
That we only play at "we"
Makes this a hollow victory.

And that light is painfully bright
On the morning after.
Cracking that thin veneer of love
I paint on simple laughter.