A love in verse

Jealousy

2008-11-26
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I see you young and could-be-straying

Suspicion scars an ancient heart

Then I pretend and say I’m playing

Or else I’m gloomy we’re apart

But you’re so lovely every sense

Still leaves me in a sweet suspense


This is the crazy trust. I asked

About your times, thinking an hour

Might yet be vacant, somehow masked

In which you’d wander… what a shower

I am, you’ll maybe think, an arse

But – silly girl – look in the glass! 


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