A Gift of Delusion by Dominique Stavropoulos Williams
My beloved , turn your stillness and disinterest into a turbulence of haunted yearnings .
Un-tether your self-imposed constraint and unleash that which you will not willingly acknowledge .
For deep within the darkest chasm of your stoic indifference rests a cauldron of festering desire to abandon prudence and surrender to the phantoms of amorous aspirations .
Annihilate your measured words , suspicions , careful considerations and acquiescence of the impending doom of maturity and allow fireworks of impulsivity familiar to the childish at heart , to prevail …
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Dominique Stavropoulos Williams is a native New Yorker who holds degrees in Illustration and Interior Design . She is a former dancer and a member of SAG-AFTRA . Her poems have been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine , Better Than Starbucks , The Big Windows Review and The Voices Project and has written for Array Magazine , a trade publication for the New York Design Building . She lives in New York City ’ s East Harlem with her husband and grey tabby rescue cat .
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