I could offer you, my soul,
And hope
You keep it safe forever
I could offer you my mind
And hope
You keep teaching it
I could offer you my heart
And hope
That you can keep it beating
I could offer you my body
And hope
You can keep worshipping it
But what I offer you in April
Could be tossed
In May for the one
You find to light up your desire
And bring you the flame
And when that happens
All I offered is thrown away
So I will offer you nothing
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Contention
PoetryPoetry based on prompts from Instagram (J.R. Rogue and Kat Savage) about The War In Us. In love and heartbreak, we find that we are at war. It is a war with who we are, who we will be, and with what we do in response. In this war sometimes we win, a...
