bond

Sovereignty

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If you tease me with this for long
I fear that you will guide me wrong—
inside my veins the blood burns hot
inside my brain images rot

Soothing as you appear to me
stinging my recent memory
you give much less than what you take
and haunt the hallows in your wake

I do not know why you appear
and in my thoughts are always near
you are a debt as Dunbar states
one who at no time hesitates

To remind me of your cruelty
your lack of faith, your sovereignty—
but I will not give in to you
for him, our love, I will cut through.

Eighth Grade Science

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I used to think that you and I were a covalent bond,
sharing our electrons in a Venn-diagram link
that could not be broken or shared with another atom.

But we are grown now, and I see the difference in us:
we are truly ionic, not connected in a way that we cannot break,
but handing electrons back and forth, giving and taking.

We are charged, sometimes positive, sometimes negative,
hovering around each other like fireflies in the forest,
our bond allowing us to gain strength from one another.