Worn and torn love.
Worn and torn love
Written on 8 April 1985
(For Angela. A lost and confused young woman.
I tries to pick her up and show her life was OK.
I hope she found peace?)
She never allowed me to understand her pain.
Pretending to be someone else.
Acting out parts like a woman in a cheap porno movie.
I was sorry if she was abused.
Unable to untangle the disorder in her
heart and mind.
My life wasn’t always so organized and demented.
Finding joy and pleasure in the consumption and
digesting of new young woman flesh.
Her brown eyes.
Looks into my eyes.
Tries to find one reason to stay.
I wrote a simple poem for her.
“Sweet Angela
So beautiful.
You are cut so deep.
So young.
Unable to run
from yesterday.
Stay with me.
Awake in the
morning with me.
Maybe we will find
a reason to be alive.”
She stand up.
Slowly undressed for me.
I’m infatuated with her beautiful and young body.
She danced in circles.
Told me.
“I wanted to be a dancer.
I wanted to be a singer.
I wanted to be loved forever.”
She fell upon my bed.
I brought her close.
Whispered.
“The flesh is more hungry than the
wish to know love.”
In the morning.
We walks on the Seaside beach.
We sat together drinking coffee at the café.
The quiet of the Seaside beach.
Leave us thinking.
We went and sat upon the sandy beach.
She began to write my name in the sand.
She showed me my name surrounded by a heart.
Wrapped her arms around me.
Whispers “thank you.”
She told me.
“I’m twenty years old.
Disease and cold hearten.
Why do you spend time with me?”
I smiled.
Kissed her sweet lips.
Brought her closer.
I told my beautiful Angela.
“Love is not a secure bet.”
“Gift of the flesh is easy.
Satisfying of the body is easily done.”
“Love takes at least a lifetime.”
Coyote
8 April 1985

Thanks for this amazing post. Can you make more like these in the future?
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I have a few similar poems on Writer’s cafe. Been writing for 40 years and with life. We learn real life can become real interesting story.
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Filled with emotion…
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beautiful and intensely written
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This one is so beautiful. I simply love this.
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A raw and honest poem. I especially love the ending “Love is not a secure bet.”
“Gift of the flesh is easy.
Satisfying of the body is easily done.”
“Love takes at least a lifetime.”
So very very true. Great thoughts.
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Thank you for the comment. Like most folks. I learn the hard way to be kind.
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but at least you learnt. Most don’t.
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A very touching piece….
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Thank you for reading. I do appreciate. Sometime we need kindness so we can be strong and fearless again.
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Love last a lifetime and remembered for a long time after lovers die, love lives on as a poetry and story told to generations who believe in love.
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Your words are true. Real love is never forgotten. Thank you for the comment.
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thank you
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Thank you, John. I look forward to reading more.
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Thank you for your comment. Life teaches us to be kind. Negative words and actions leave us alone and empty.
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