Book Lover

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love has become fiction

our dramatic story unfurls,

I hold you passionately

like a book, both hands

worried you might slip

from my grasp,

late in the night

engrossed I softly thumb

the fine skin down 

your slender spine,

I cannot release you

I am captivated, intently

immersed in your 

richly enticing words,

you shapeshift between

colourful characters

villain, heroine, lover

twisting and turning through

the treacherous plot

our lives have become,

this affair, destined to end

in reckless adventure

my senseless chase

your devastating betrayal

the brevity of a sensual

but doomed reunion,

I wake as your raw slap

stings my cheeks, you

slip from my fingers

and coldly stare back

at my shocked expression,

we’re done, it’s over

another chapter of my

tawdry life expired

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© Graham R Sherwood 4/24