Prevaricate

© 2022 Marieke de Koker

My love, I beg of you:

Forget your eloquent evasions

Show me your heart stripped bare

There's no use in wondering 

Why your walls have kept me away 

This is fierce love, not serrurie 

Set your castles on fire

Let all sense give way to senses 

Hold me like tomorrow will never come

Hold me in that heart of yours

You carry an inkling on your sleeve 

But I know those cavernous depths 

I have felt them in my soul 

You tamed a dragon with your smile

I've watched you with silent eyes 

Oh, the things I have traded for chance

To see behind your exquisite elusion 

My sands of time tinted with your blood 

I drink you, I breathe you 

Wayward flies my heart incorrigibly 

You pulled me onto this journey of wanders 

Tell me, how does our story end?

© 2025 Marieke de Koker