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Learning Love
Isabelle5
She won’t make it	1
through the week-end without him,	2
that’s her fear;	3
falling down in desperation	4
for his touch and his lips,	5
his eyes on hers,	6
the reaching out she needs,	7
the solidness she finds	8
in the music and the muscle.	9

Feelings that she had suppressed	10
and kept in mental cabinets	11
under guard and key,	12
found by his lock-smith eyes,	13
have been remanded to	14
his persistent custody.	15

Waking in the night,	16
breathless with damp thighs,	17
afraid to turn	18
to see if he is really there,	19
sighing in relief and partial pain	20
to find herself alone	21
with thoughts of him	22
where courage and solitude	23
used to be.	24
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