Jonathan Berger's Poetry: Poem of the Day
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MAKIN’ LOVE

I would like to make love to you
I would like to make hard violent love to you
I would like to make ugly dangerous love to you
I would like to be the act you always strive to forget
I would like to be the most memorable animal horrible thing in your past
the one you run away from, always nipping at your ass
the thing that you try to erase but will always last

I want to be the nightmares that you hold
the pictures you keep hidden
the flashbacks you never speak of
except to your therapist
without name
as the secret you’ve submerged
your most dire phobia.

I would like to be what you’re scared of
most intense about
I want to be the one you hope is dead
but fear the same as well.
I want to make love to you
badly.