Six months plus, long months of
Playing second best to inferiority
The light in my eyes growing
Dimmer and finally, extinguished
Forty minutes an hour spent in silence
Internally bargaining with God, tasting
Victory sporadically, caring little
Who won as long as she lost
Fifteen minutes stolen, hasty embraces
Inhaling the proof of your adoration
No one else permitted entry into
My heart or my mind or my soul
