A Pipedream Poem by John Sensele

Jilted lovers lick their wounds and withdraw into cocoons
Where their scattered hearts smitten by fantasy moons
Delete traces of love from their vocabulary although emotions
Still swing tingles at the bottom of their stomachs with a mixture of devotions
Covert shame, convoluted blame too hard to conceal and contain
Cos men and women in proven love can't dare to maintain
Indifference at the confluence of feelings and teething facades that sweep every fibre
In their soft core in every pore of the heart which despite any veneer
Of bravado catalyses a vortex that pumps
Dopamine and serotonin alongside adrenalin to swamp humps
Where futile, febrile and feeble resistance summoned to hoodwink
Friends, acquaintances and the inner circle into perceiving a kink
Which underneath stirs a volcano lava in a lover's heart to scream
For release, for peace, for a kiss because resistance to love is a pipedream.