Love Poem: Athena Part Ii
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Written by: Jessica Vh

Athena Part Ii

You fill cavities in me I never knew were there
Like you dug inside and wildly bloomed
I felt your inviting light invade the sleep
‘Til I was jarred, shorn up, and doomed  

I still think somehow I will I saturate you, too 
When he doesn’t love you the way that I do
When I sleepwalk and find myself in you

I watch you late night when you dance to infinity	
With a fire I wish you’d feel for me 
Brimming and beautiful and ineffably free
As though you and I were meant to be

I sleep for days to shake you off
I see you out and nostalgically stop  

I watch you blush as I plainly stare
You laugh and go on unaware   

but 

     how

          you

bleed

through the mind-numbingly empty
And blunt humdrum liars and sickening travesty
I pick you out of the crowd with such fluttering ease
You stick out like the moon through the autumn trees

Sometimes you smile as you watch me pass by 
But I am letting you go, this time, this night 
I am nothing against your backdrop of sky,

A shadow within your celestial light.