All of His Love

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Should there not be something more from a man's love?

Men's love?

Is there such a thing that can be bought?

I already know the answer.

Can a man's love be bought?

I believe so.

It can be bought by batting your eyelashes.

Always smiling in a certain way,

Settling yourself near the door,

And allowing his hands to push through your hair.

It can be bought by birth.

By being swaddled in a pink blanket,

Being torn from mothers arms and put into his,

Being thrown in the air as a toddler,

Giggling as a child.

It can be bought by anger.

An angry, angry, angry man is bought

Without a second glance,

An accidental brush,

Or maybe by buying groceries.

A man's love can be bought through poetry,

Through flowers and warmth,

A secret however,

One both are much safer keeping.

It can bought through knowledge,

A assuring word here or there,

A couple meetings every so often,

Gentle affirmations after class.

It is bought in a doctors office.

After question after question,

Each one showing the fact that

You do need a man's love.

It is bought in a waiting room.

After a patient with teary eyes leaves

Then you are ushered in.

Months of this.

And then more questions.

Yes, it seems you still need a man's love.

More waiting rooms, more pity.

More insistence that if you just bought

A man's love then it would be okay.

A man's love can be bought with needles.

With drugs and lights,

Along with beer and ruslted sheets.

A short skirt perhaps, pants maybe.

I buy my man's love in the waiting room.

Waiting for the needles.

Waiting for the words that I do not need

A man's love anymore.

For the affirmations that I am well

Enough to give my own man's love.

That I am man enough to do so.

A divine derivative of a man's love.

But the words never happen,

They never fall from a man's lips,

They are never whispered by any him.

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