ROMANCE Poem: Fear of Heights, by Kelsey Conrad

Paradoxical,
falling in and out
of trite conversation
for the sake of something true:
profound ease, perfect fit,
conjoined pasts paving a future, a
pretty picture of glimpsed promise,
gilded around a pit of lonesome.
Restless,
falling face-first
into technicolor heartbeat,
entrenched in ritual tunnels:
dozen red roses, pink-cheeked dimples,
courtesy captured in a bottle, but
not carelessly, never corrosive, never
so corrupt as to drip vows and gestures like acid
with the intent to wear down and fizzle out, instead dripping
declarations like soft rain down the lover’s window.
Inevitable,
falling victim
to a fate designed by poetic capital:
lovely words, lopsided smirks,
lungs popped like pills.

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