Love is Promised

 

You promise love;
What you give is pleasure, sweet pleasure,
        Unbounded but momentary.
Not so the guilt,
        Focused and unending.
Your love is the love of the hunt;
        You will not let me be.

My passion burns for you with fear;
You accept me with tenderness,
        And destroy me without mercy.
Your love is the love of the kill;
        You will not let me survive.

Rick Deering

 

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