Snatches of a Friday Afternoon Conversation

He said

But I don’t want to hurt you

She said

Don’t worry my love is bulletproof

No bitter lies steeped in desperate loving

     can destroy

     No burnished, hollow love masquerading

     as true

Carry me in your bosom

he said

so close my heartbeat will mirror yours

And then you will know

She said

I know all I need to know when I

look into your eyes, I see

all the reasons why my love needs to be

bulletproof

He said

I’m nothing like the others

She said

You’re all they were and more

When he smiled, she felt his attack like bullets

to her soul

But because she was bulletproof

she knew she was protected, not loved

but protected

Peace & Love,

Rosalind