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Love's Reality—Unreal

Kurt Phiip Behm

Your lies much more exciting,
  than any truth you never told

Stolen moments of pure delight,
  a fantasies cuckold

Your touch hides what your eyes cannot,
  my dreams you come to steal

Your body moves, your heart lays still,
  love’s reality—unreal

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 29, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 283
Words 45
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
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