R.M. Dolin, February 9, 2024 Your trepidations are valid given the many challenges we must endure. I share those concerns, but view them as temporary struggles worth the hardship. Though we can’t be together right now as we’d like, love is not governed by time …
Read MoreIt’s Easy to Find
R.M. Dolin, February 7, 2024 It’s awkwardly painful having to hide our love until at least those reasons that seem so constraining no longer matter. I anticipate that moment with the eagerness of a high desert flower waiting for rain. It’s easy to find someone …
Read MorePoker Face
R.M. Dolin, January 30, 2024 I quietly win at poker because of the quality way I hide myself from the world.
Read MoreForever Girl
R.M. Dolin, February 7, 2024 I regret my misguided rant on our last walk and the unfortunate way I vented frustration. If only I had Aladdin’s lamp for just one wish, I’d get that moment back. I can accept we can’t be together right now, …
Read MoreWatershed Moment
R.M. Dolin, February 5, 2024 I have to see you, hold your tender hands, look deeply into your soft eyes that cannot lie, to know it’s really over. If not now, then when I’m in Paris for the Roubaix Challenge, which is currently in jeopardy. …
Read MoreLoss of Love
R.M. Dolin, February 13, 2024 You’re not the first to leave me, just the one that hurts the most. I loved you without fear or regret, without a safety net or discarded shields. I believed you’d never leave, it’s a pivotal reason I fell so …
Read MoreCycling on Smiles
R.M. Dolin, February 12, 2024 It’s a silly simple bike I bought used at that shop on the edge of town during my second visit to Versailles, but I do so love it. Memories get carried on it’s glossy gray frame that only has space …
Read MoreGoodbye Girl
R.M. Dolin, January 29, 2024 The always leaving girl is gone, and in her void, an unsettled darkness descends in after-breath whispers that evaporate into contrails of discerning distraction meant to delay inevitable loneliness and returning isolation. I not only mourn the loss of her …
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