Shadow Games

Idea of you please do not vanish on me

I have had too many recently

Human images of cyberspace connection

Words in alcoves of characters arranged linked to prolific photograph bios

The surmise in the timeline of first impressions a rye

A seed not carefully placed, too much time in the interim

The wind scuffles logistics and quick slips

The fork in the road into a ditch muddied and impersonal

No explanations just deflated and dehumanized in the remainder

Of meeting or not; of speaking behind walls of offering any resemblance of real

Implying the potential for judgment like an abrupt jerk of the steering wheel into a tree

Or be that immaculate malleable clay of the generic as long as possible

Hold out from being anything other than cheek bones and ass lined into biceps and breasts

Posturing in gun downs of who will get the other to divulge first so that one

Can choose to morph or hold hostage the information that inevitably

One will be hunter and one hunted based on who puts more meat in the fire

Burning, scalding so that someone might be able to feed

Hoping a commensurate offering will be made in the dynamic

Knowing quantity and quality are not equitable but dancing haughty breathes

That usually one splays both from the lungs and blood stream so that sheets are soaked wildly humble

That human is on the table and someone eats

Feasts and in the gastronomic postulation of a response

Says nothing

Does not sign the bill or leave a tip

Shame, arrogance, confidence, Atlas holds the world with how humans exchange weights

Passed in how a person is valued one scurrying to give marrow

For anyone who will drink, because vampires are always thirsty and the best humans

Have trouble making conversation in the shadows when one is exposed and the other

Is so comfortable slathered in darkness leaving the appearance of open

When their essence was never vulnerable or offered only the tantalizing specter

That lends a lover to dream a dashed heart’s lament

Please, be not this, be better, let the idea of you stay, materialize, touch me

And I will do my best to return the favor