The past

You always said

The past is just the past

You needed to live now

I always said the past is not the past

I needed to live to love

You always read my words

Those past

As if they were the then

I always spoke and wrote

Those words

As if they were

The constant

The sacrosanct

You read

Summary execution

I read

consummation

 

longing in poems

is the summary

of words

and sentiment

and the array

of verbiage

in an unnatural

line

or sometimes

it is simply

you inverse