Love is the best lube

~ aviD

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How often it is that
when you tell someone
that you love them
it's not a mere confession
it's a desparate plea instead

I love you
is mostly an incomplete statement
the unsaid bit of which is
please love me back
the same way I love you.

~ aviD

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The

first casualty

of love is reason

and dignity

the second

~ aviD

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Every morning as I walk into the campus,
the pavement under my feet is littered with fallen flowers
from champa trees,
that line the pavement,
their mild but moist fragrance filling my nose.

There is a champa tree
right outside my cabin too,
that sticks out its many tongues at me,
as I look at it longingly.

I walk into the classroom,
and lecture the kids
about the need of being true to oneself.

A girl in the class,
sits with a champa flower tucked behind her ear,
that she or her beau
may have picked from the pavement
or plucked off from one of the many trees.

I stop to smile at her
(wanting to tell her one day
I will be brave enough)
and continue to drown her and her peers in my hollow homily.

~ aviD

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Everything
I want to say to you
is either inexpressible
or inappropriate?

~ aviD

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Sin:
the urge to season
the blandness of being
by licking the salt
off your damp skin

~ aviD

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When I lay myself bare to you,
I will allow you to wince
but just a little.
~aviD

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When you told me
you were in love,
I did not feel jealous,
just curious.

I wish I could see this person
who shares my name
and lives in my body
but is still completely unknown
to me.

~ aviD

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Desire and despair
are the only languages
I can write in.

Of course I resent you,
for before I met you
only my desire was illicit.

~ aviD

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had never seen anything
as undisciplined
and as desirable
as his hair

couldn't decide whether I wanted
to grab it in a fist to tame it
or to take a whiff off it to feel alive

~ aviD

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