stay sodden

i sit here in this fold
can't escape this sickening beat
touch me touch me take my seat

i give to you
i give to me
what couldn't, what wouldn't
be

enough i say
you cannot stay
go right now
you couldn't plow
work hard enough
to measure
up.ward onward forward

go i realize now that we were the
anomaly, the rare exception to the rule
we couldn't last the final round
you were meant to pound
me in the mat

for you i'd burst
i'd fall so flat

for you i would've given
anything i would have crawled a thousand miles
to return to you worked in ways you never knew
and it wasn't ever good enough
to suppose or re-emerge
with golden glimmers
of forgotten hope

with that news i couldn't cope
your scope too narrow, to diseased
plagued i go
know you will sew
it more where you lay
and it was there i could not stay