Blindfold

Mai Mislang
Jan 17, 2024
Photo by Oscar Keys

We are not yet the people

Who deserve each other

Passion and love at its pinnacle

Fickle and fleeting, both

Unlike stubborn longing

Always deprived

The kind of love

With legs, bludgeoned

With bones crushed

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Mai Mislang

Former presidential speechwriter, still a musician; owns a bakery, loves her dog. Tries to write more prose than poetry. Filipina from Manila.