I see it in your eyes KeanuDon’t fall in love with me.Your desire to add me to your treasures, to keep me still and quiet and indoors and safe from your snarling counterparts,I see it.Don’t fall in love with me KeanuFor even though you are feeling the earth still again beneath your feet, we will fight and bicker and love-making will grow stale,And your eyes will seek a more pleasing bloom to rest on, a fresh scent complete with everything you perceived in me and then found wanting,Your offerings of small freedoms when the madness of confinement threatens to rob you of my gratitude will never reignite the fire of that first connection, that moment I missed which you will inform me of later.Don’t fall in love with me KeanuDon’t fall in love with meBecause I have learned to say yes when I mean something else insteadI have learned that the world is built on my acquiescence and silence and that to shout and scream and rail against the fabric of such reality is to invite doom,These things I have learned and experienced and I must leave them untouched, barely recognised,
And, then, nothing would save us from the inevitable parting, sooner or later.So don’t fall in love with me Keanu, don’t.


Portrait of a Man Parmigianino

From the upcoming compilation 'Feminine Matters' by Margaret Murphy