Monday 14 February 2022

The Bends

 

The bends

 

Love is surely the same for some of us

the seemingly original addiction to touch

and being touched the anticipation

the seemingly endless gratification

how everything is too little and too much

the spiralling descent into paradise

only to find the oxygen thin the lack of sky

So begins the slow tortuous attenuation of desire

then the raging ascent rising for a breath of air

and towards the end surfacing into endless ocean

with nothing or no one to grasp or cling to and

the blood fizzing in the brain and the bends.

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