#i dunno those poems about sharing oranges as the pinnacle of love tend to feel...

[knighthawkpoet]

Oranges

You know those poems, of oranges and love?

I know you do, you adored them

In-taking the words like nectar

Like breathing in the intimacy and saying that you've shared it

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I hope that every orange you eat is the sweetest thing that touches your lips

That you think of us each bite you take

That every orange is too much for you to eat alone

That the bitter pith stays on your tongue.

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Much the same as I think of you

In the wasteland you left

Dropped peels scattered

The only part of the spirit fruit you shared with me

.

See my heart was already pulp

(which you don't seem to like much)

A bit too much effort to be patient, delicate

Can't peel it open the same way you score a citrus

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I hope your orange tea tastes like truth

A medicine

The steam rising like the oracle at delphi inhaled

Telling you visions of what you could have had

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In the meantime I'll go out

Till the soil

Orange peels as fertilizer

And see what grows in time.