Paying For Sex


insubstantial

insubstantial
flickering
before my eyes your image
fades
returns and fades and back again
alone or not?
i cannot say

ambiguous
or undecided
no-one knows -- not even you
these paths we walk
will guide us
just as far as we
permit them to

uncertainty
the ice beneath my feet
croaks songs of deep cold doom
i run light-footed
spiralling
beneath the pallid moonlit gloom

redemption
and transparent spirit
slough the old ways off and gone
emerge into
some pale morning
cold
alone
but singing on...


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Poems For My Analyst by Wayne Myers