Dark Side

You're sweet when you're full.
You gently pull my tides
Toward your ebbing lull.
But you can turn, too,
And I'm left wondering who
It is that waxes so cold and dark
And pushes me firmly aside.

But let me close my eyes tonight,
And bask in the lie of shadows and moonlight,
And dream of love’s infancy,
When ignorance taught me how to dress,
And bliss distracted ‘til I couldn't care less
About words like “constancy”

Or, “Help?”

 -jenn long