[Ephemeridian] a poem

How does it work?
The one who wants only the
physical you reigns over the one
who desires the whole of you?
Apparently,
an apparent juxtaposition exist,
between the simple
& the intricate;

A simple man is brutally primitive,
knowing only his primitivism,
unfamiliar with any dreams beyond
The intricate,
intense, almost hindered by his analysis
paralysis, demands, possesses hands willing
to be bloodied if murder indeed
reveals itself the method to equate
what dreams haunt him
& what dream-likeness is absent
when he’s awake


The wish to live day to day appeals,
prevails,
more than a dreamer willing to pull you
into the hereafter,
a limitless man,
devout, dangerous, dosed to
delirium for a love he knows all too
well doesn’t belong to him


Dontrell Lovet't
from, [The Failed Writer]