to someone beautiful and tired

[HairyTwink III]

to someone beautiful and tired (V2)

The sharpness of your wit untested
By their blunt adoration. (you tell me they’re relentless)
The glimmer in your eye’s detested
In their awful trepidation. (now your lids swing shut and your head lulls low and still your fists are clenched)
You fear their fear and hate their lust
—misplaced and undesired. (“Let us taste! Let us touch!”)
They never rest (tag in/tag out) so you never rest (raw coffee beans and a teaspoon of sugar 6x a day)
You’re just so damn tired. (now you slip. But you won’t fall)
 
I think I know some of your pain,
Some of your truth and the disdain
You hold for those who would misname you. (Let us speak, let me hear)
I’ll keep your names on my tongue (can you remember all of mine?)
You’ll rest easy tonight with your phone by your ear
We’ll keep the line open. I can hear you snore on speaker.

to someone beautiful and tired

The sharpness of your wit untested
by the bluntness of their adoration
the glimmer in your eye detested
by them in their constant trepidation.
You fear their fear and hate their love
-- misplaced, uncalled for, undesired --
still they assail you as up above
in your fragile roost you grow tired.

(now it slips
it's bound to fall
keep your eyes open
and your wings spread)

I think I know some of your pain
a sliver of your truth and the disdain
you hold for those who would misname you.
You look like you could use a friend
on whom you can (for now) depend
to speak your name until the end.