The Former

The Former - Parenthetical Girls/Zac Pennington/Matthew Thomas Carlson

Engraved appraised and upraised so engaged you became

Displaced in haste and surname

Sir her name hath claim lain

From thumb counts three like clicked feet

Efface we from memory unsure unchaste and waylaid

In vague ways with what remains

Impressed with pleasures of the flesh

And slept in beds you'd soon regret

His genuflect and pledged to death

Though not who you'd come to expect

As you kneel before him love

Through hopes through harms I've dealt you

With spent affections on your tongue

Through borrowed arms you've clung to

Sunbed skinned and lost of love

Now helpless to remind you

As below so too above there's room for two inside

You strive for happiness I guess

Though never blessed of much success

Wed to abreast yet who'd suspect

Which strains still swell beneath your dress