Crimes of Passion

My hands detach,
Digging and scratching
A new distress

Clawing
The shallow grave
You fashioned
For yourself

Your shadows abduct
Our sacred sleep
And steal a flapping mountain flag

I ache to avenge,
To tell my hands its sabotage
And ransom for an ego

Oh crimes of passion.


Robert Knapman

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