What Did You Expect?

What did you expect?
Wisp mystical lioness
Serrations embedded they tear me to shreds
As flesh of my flesh falls, dissolves into nothingness
Bereft of condolence and scrambling for safety

What did you expect?
Her ‘acte gratuit’
Leaves me sprawled on the lawn sipping stout in the sun
A murmured conspiracy gripped melodramatically
Around my taut throat and the age of my whispers

What did you expect?
Manipulates my lips
I search for the answers to conjure – none there
Discarded of all but my heart’s newest tumult
Voluptuous intoxicants filling the air

What did you expect?
Proud venomous flower
The fruit of your petals entice me to stay
Then slowly envelope my connubial quandary
And stab at my soul till my wings fall away

What did you expect?
Tenacious played chokehold
Mocking my voice as it struggles for sound
Of all the calypso silk sirens to tempt me
The one I most covet wraps her sea in dark bulwark

What did you expect?
Luxuriant moonlight
O the fathoms you go just to drink from my carnage
Left naked to brace the intense cast of shadows
Of all that was lost in the hush of despondence

What did you expect?
Asks divinity’s madness
A rucksack of pain lets one know they’re alive
But what of the ashes that once were my passions?
I question, but silence again the distraction

What did you expect?
Undressed innocence
Factitious caresses immorally glean
Emancipate me from the finger of tyrants
Who fondle my ailments and sully my name

What did you expect?
Emotional outpour
Can never take back the lone fact – I’m alone
But of all the felled giants I’ve slain in a lifetime
The beans in my pocket still wait to be sewn

What did I expect?
The friends I have suffered
And some I’ve been proud to have called me their friend
Their mystery, like fireflies, shown flickered in twilight
Yet much can be learned from the books that they lend.