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19/1/2023

my love for you is liquid in an overflowing glass that i can’t stop filling yet you won’t drink from it

you tell me you’re not thirsty enough

you’re not sure what you want to drink 

maybe my love isn’t for you, 

i beg you to drink what’s in the glass 

it’s spilling 

it’s in constant supply 

it flows from my fingers and my tongue 

i tell you you’ll never be thirsty again 

if you drink from my glass,

you bring it to your lips 

‘someone else may be thirstier’ you tell me 

‘someone who knows what they want to drink’

it may only overflow for you, i say 

my love won’t spill for everyone

creating pools in this way, 

what’s wrong with what’s in my glass 

that you can’t drink it 

‘nothing’ you say 

‘there’s nothing wrong with it, but you still can’t make me drink’ 

i’m drowning 

you can’t hear me scream 

you’re still thinking about it 

toying with the idea 

you dip a finger

remembering how it felt before 

‘maybe this is what i want to drink’

you hesitate 

i am a river 

a monument to how i could sustain you 

if love alone was life 

you swim, you bathe, you dive

you come out dry,

‘perhaps i’m not thirsty, perhaps i don’t want to drink from you after all, but thank you for letting me try’

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