Source: Exposure My Heart
Opened much too soon to a lovely face
that erased me as soon as my utterings were done,
Opened myself to a grace
disinterested in being mine,
Skin so lovely my tongue wanted a taste
of that casing only so deep,
Next time I won’t be beguiled
by style and symmetry,
Next time I love, it will be
passionate poetry,
Exposing my soul to a stranger,
strangled my faith in the next.
©2018 Michael Cleaves aka E.R. Smith
Bronx Beyond Borders 