Rufus Shepherd

Have no expectations

The memories of your touch seizes my loneliness and strangles it with despair.

’Tis a dangerous game, dancing this close together, dressed only in our souls.

I want to have a love affair with you.

I need someone who can consume me but not destroy who are am and someone I can consume but not destroy.

“Have you ever thought about me…about us — ”

“Is everything ok?”

I mistook your invite as a friendship you could not offer. You were also not on stable footing.

I have no companionship daily, except the dogs, which I am convinced have been forced upon me to keep me from leaving. This latest run of…