I Cannot Win You Like This

by Anonymous

I cannot win you like this,
beneath skies as bright as a penny
beneath trees leaving summer (your season)
behind That tiny death is much the same
as
kisses brushed by and gone These moments
are too easy They
let love in like a friend embrace and retreat
embrace and retreat
retreat

Breathing you

in the light our hard parts as hard as oysters
love lingers and

gets
by
us

lingers and
gets by

How can I win you like this?
I cannot win you at all
until the sun is gone

and the night

*****

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