Love Me N Love Me Nots.................. Poem by Minnie Gehrig

inside cavernous and monstrous words,
where faces weave themselves
from life to death and back
invisible
embryonic even...........

where your face lies
a stone mask of sleep
your breath making spiderwebs
across your pillow

i drift through
wakefulness n dreaming
the afternoon away

n my thoughts wander like the childhood game
of love me
n love me nots.....

i whisper n your ear
why do people lie about love,
n you wake n take it for the wrong meaning,

as the last petal falls
n the truth lays
naked at my feet.............