Sunday, August 24, 2025

Death of a Muse

 



It is no easy feat 

  Holding the space for two 

In heart. 


Let alone, mine different. 

  A muse of another kind. 


Not just two....

  But so many. 

Vast. 


  Yet Love, 

I had always kept my inner circle, 

  Rather miniscule, and bound tight. 


A few got in, their own volition, 

  My defenses bare as a woman. 

Their manhood towering over me. 

  Divine Reverence. 



No...

   easy feat 

         at all...


Cracking open your chest, to expand and make room, 


 Where sometimes 

There was no room at all. 


No...

  No easy feat. 



As worn to my death, 

  Will be the never perfectly healed 

Ache of it all. 


  The sweet fragments, 

and memories 

  That tinge so deep...

Lodged chards of bones, 

  Theirs now placed in me. 


They have become embossed 

On my Primordial DNA, 


   Carried 

Harbored. 

  Forever and into infinity. 


It is an ache of another kind. 

  The consumption of bittersweet. 

It is the form taken of 

  Experiencing the paradox of pain. 

Lush against our skin, salivating, 

Surrendered, bare, vulnerable 


And there's nothing one can do. 


Juggling hearts. 

  That's what I do. Said not unhumbly at all...


But rather it's a bare, raw, and lonely skill...

  the Mother of all Paradox. 


I cry, and I rain, and I bash, and I bleed...

  As any


Because we all know....

  It fucking hurts. 


No...


It is no easy feat at all. 


  Waking up to the char of my own flame. 

The pain of singed and grown back wings, 

  Skin tarred and feathered up. 


The thrash of a new beating and molten heart. 


And then the death. 

  And then the dark. 


Thus was the tale 

  Of those, 

Mused in Juggling hearts. 


And often do we dream of our own. 

  A home, 

That might 

 Just stay. 



That is where we, 

  People like me

Find our own Reverence. 


A home, 

  In staying. 


One worth raising. 

One shared. 


  It was never a skill I wanted, 

 The feat, I'd have to endure


  Just a destiny I was born to. 

And just the consequences that it lures. 














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