FREELY

FREELY

Muse
is not taking my calls
think she has blocked me

I imagine her sitting
in a cafe reading The Paris Review
drinking an aperitif

not wondering or
worried about me
in the slightest

or why it should be, despite
the myriad reasons not to

I have sacrificed my life for her
given her
love her
so much for those who

know nothing of her power
are so happily immune
to her seductive beauty

selling
her soul unashamedly
giving
herself freely.