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    </div><h2 id="b3e1">Christopher Madsen, author of the Limerick books:</h2><p id="7b70"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Cream-Breakfast-Mondays-Collection/dp/B08MGSZ2LP/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=christopher+madsen&amp;qid=1630859222&amp;sr=8-1">Ice Cream for Breakfast on Mondays</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tacos-Brunch-Tuesdays-limericks-pantoums/dp/B08P4BH3SY/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=christopher+madsen&amp;qid=1630859222&amp;sr=8-6">Tacos for Brunch on Tuesdays</a></p><p id="04a6">To support him and other independent writers become a member of Medium:<a href="https://cmadsen71.medium.com/membership"> CLICK HERE!</a></p></article></body>

Fear of Love

Protect yourself at all costs!

Photograph by Christopher Madsen

For a long time tender rocks protected my heart. Her whispers cracked my mountain. Exposing my defects. I panicked at losing control. My pride kept her alone.

In silence she suffered for me. Praying for the strength that I might see.

A coward, hiding under steel skin. A child afraid he may betray himself out of sin.

My selfish fate is an imposter. Only teaching to take from pleasure.

Her soft words speak love’s sedate. A man enters passion. He must awake!

Our matching breath melts among shifting skin. She tamed the illusions twin. I caress her presence, falling into her power.

My fear seeps out, draining my heart. The shield of my skin has crumbled. Stone has become her molder’s clay.

copyright CMad Poet 2021

Christopher Madsen, author of the Limerick books:

Ice Cream for Breakfast on Mondays and Tacos for Brunch on Tuesdays

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