10-13-2022, 07:25 AM
Nothing comes to mind
and overstays its welcome.
My therapist didn’t mention
that particular side-effect
when he led me into October
and asked, “What have you got to lose?”
Though we’ve cleared a dozen traumas
it seems one was left behind
and has now caught up
panting with delight
to see me again.
Out of breath
it gasps out its plaintive request:
“Promise me, you won’t mention the sex
you never had, that tiresome list
of unrequited loves, the furtive satisfactions
that you acquired when no one
was looking.”
I had no choice but to agree
since the trauma was nothing else but me.
and overstays its welcome.
My therapist didn’t mention
that particular side-effect
when he led me into October
and asked, “What have you got to lose?”
Though we’ve cleared a dozen traumas
it seems one was left behind
and has now caught up
panting with delight
to see me again.
Out of breath
it gasps out its plaintive request:
“Promise me, you won’t mention the sex
you never had, that tiresome list
of unrequited loves, the furtive satisfactions
that you acquired when no one
was looking.”
I had no choice but to agree
since the trauma was nothing else but me.