Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Will You Be With Me Tonight?

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Written to a lover who was so self absorbed that it drove the poet crazy, after a fashion, once he realized it.

Will You Be With Me Tonight?

will you be with me tonight
when the demons come?
all the doubts running like molten wax
from the wick of my heart, trimmed
too tightly by anxious hands...
holding me against the lost causes
I sold out for you and your eyes,
spinning webs that I can never cut,
never tear, never touch for fear
that you might one day awaken
and realize that there is someone
in this world besides yourself.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.

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