No Room (With You)

Feb 28 '04 (Updated Jun 08 '04)    Write an essay on this topic.


The Bottom Line I've seen windswanwoman for the final time. I tried to make peace & came bearing gifts. And yet, she coldly showed me the door - after four hours together.

There is no longer
Any room for me (with you).
You’ve told me so:
I'm no longer welcome.

How could this happen?

We once had a passionate
And loving relationship,
Which (so ironically) turned toxic
The very day we both (still) say
was the most transcendent
we have ever known.

And yet, irony became commonplace!

On that transcendent day,
you told me clearly
that......your love was for sale

And would have to go
to the most deeply
pocketed bidder
(on this much we agree, and
only the result is in dispute)

From this, We never recovered.

But, we still carried on
(off and on, off and on)
Despite the strain
Of that monetary
monkey on both our backs
(for me it weighed a tonne)

And yet, despite my dark concerns:
Deeply, Deeply in love
With you I fell,
for it’s
Common knowledge
That I became
addicted to you.

Why is this so?

Some social theorists suggest
That...........
The abused, seek others
To abuse them
(and we know each
other's pasts)
So, it was familiar!

For your part,
You say I had my boot
On your neck - But, I
Reject that notion
Completely!
(perhaps it's the ghost
of the man you carried
you here - who did?)

Instead, it was always
About you, and your
manifold needs
and accommodating all of that,
which - I gladly tried to do.

Even the last time I saw you,
You did not ask - even a
single time, how I’d been,
since 9/11 (our anniversary)
despite all of my
enquiries about you


I always tried hard to help
and please you,
And know in my heart
That I did.
About that I am certain!

I was also kind
and loved you torridly
(breathlessly! exhaustingly!)
to the point you begged
for mercy - and for calm
(the sheets fairly smoldered,
when we were done)

You are now with another
To whom you are true,
And so you are right:
There is no longer
Any room for me
(with you)

For, we could never all be
under the same roof!

Because,
My imagining
The goings on
In the grotto
(where we stayed)
Would surely
undo me

And so, windswanwoman,
This is adieu and farewell
(for the last time)
To a toxic love (which lingers)

And the greatest
dark country pleasure
(the pleasure of the id)
I have ever known!

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