Jon Lloyd

'How much do I love you? '
I ask myself again.
All the way to Jupiter,
And half-way back again,
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Each second leaves fall one by one to ground,
And languidly caress their neighbours one
By one, as if in fond farewell. The sun
Still smiles, but weakly now, as though it’s bound
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Arm: needle;
Needle: arm.
Can’t wait for you
To become better acquainted.
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Picked up once more, like marionette,
And then flung down again.
How can anyone forget
That puppets too feel pain?
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It's unlikely but true -
Your physical attraction
Entertains me
On so many levels.
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Can't let myself be crushed again,
By the merciless indiscriminate beast called love.

Won't let myself be pushed again,
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Staring at the earth
From the top of a tree -
It is countless vile bodies
Ripped at the seams.
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When I think of you so far away
Across that stretch of sea,
I cannot help but wonder if
Sometimes you think of me.
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Some say that self-destruction
Lies just around the corner
I say 'Fair play - that argument
May just prove to be true,
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I know you've heard some evidence -
You think you've got the facts -
But look into my eyes my love,
Before you raise that axe.
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Running frenzied through the forest
Screams and bugle calls and howls
Panic grips my fragile body
Causing twisting in my bowels.
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When the wind slaps your face
and the rain blinds your eyes,
when you're lost on a mountain
in the fog with aching thighs,
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you are my raincloud,
my dark grey raincloud.
you just depress me,
when skies are blue.
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I push the plunger home again and wait
For multi-coloured patterns to gyrate...
Off we go! I'm flying once again -
'Psychedelic Airtours - you won't return the same'.
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I'd love to wake up next to you,
To breathe the morning air
And smell the scent upon your neck;
Caress your long dark hair.
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If my world should ever fall apart,
I'll go and find some glue,
To put it back like at the start -
That's always assuming I can find a hardware store that's open.
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