Genuine

Pollen Collector by Tina Phillips/FreeDigitalPhotos.net

All this time I’d fooled myself

into knowing what it felt like

Believing I’d tasted the nectar

when all I’d really experienced

was a sip of sweetness

Soured by anger,

Tainted by jealousy

How long I’ve waited for this new life,

for this sparkling feeling

The security and safety

of a genuine man

with no mask,

no cross to bear

or pyre to set me alight upon

I feel drunk with happiness

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