Evil nymph

A moment's thought chain smoked to pass the time hiking the barren miles of sleepless nights

I hear her culling shrieks sounding after mine

pleading a cacophony of lies

Listening to loquaciously laced pillows decay-nay-

devoured down to a dull din of exhausted acquiescence

Our precious words shriveled, impotent, buzzing about deaf ears, spoken by mute mouths

only to be heard and again spoken by that damned nymph

Yes, I have spared her a thought-

I thought she ought not be spared

Her longing echoed by our own fatuous declarations