Endurance Test for One
A poem about affection with a built-in emergency exit — devotion that endures a sentence that never becomes a future.
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He likes her.
A lot.
Someone alert the poets.
Frame it.
Engrave it.
Because nothing says devotion
like affection with a built-in emergency exit.
Closeness,
comfort,
intimacy—
in exchange for not even a song:
For a vague admittance of nothing, I warm his bed, which
He never has to stay.
When staying would require bravery, he sails for the calm of closed doors
He offers her gallant affection
and trains her to endure living
for a sentence
that never becomes a future.
He likes her.
A lot.
Just not enough
to stay.
…