when you (don’t) want me

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when you want me
you want me
your eyes get that look
your touch lingers
you hold onto me
i can’t pull away
you hunt me
i am prey

when you don’t want me
you don’t want me
your eyes are blank
your touch is absent
you turn away from me
i can’t press in
you shun me
i am sin

when you want me
you want me
you seek me out
you pounce upon me
i fall beneath your ferocity
i can’t fight back
you devour me
i am your snack

when you don’t want me
you don’t want me
you hide so well
i still find you
you are in a shell
my touch it burns you
you shy away
my heart does too

when you want me
you want me
i must not refuse
you whittle away my resistance
with your feminine wiles
my love is a constant
you wield against me
i am your servant

when you don’t want me
you don’t want me
i dare not request
persistence is futile
under threat of duress
my advances cannot be
your resistance is complete
i am enemy

when you want me
you want me
you find me wherever i am
bite into my sensitivity
nothing stops you
i cannot run
you absorb me
i am undone

when you don’t want me
you don’t want me
you get lost
become someone else
hide in excuses
i flee instead
you don’t follow
i am unwanted

© Ryan J. Pearce 2021

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