Poem: Conversations with Arachne

Task
Tenuous
Techniques
Tackle
Timekeeper
Territory
Thunderous
Threat
Tread

Bonus Phrase: Tapdancing Tarantula

Conversations with Arachne

Sometimes a simple conversation with you resembles
a tapdancing tarantula.

I can tackle the techniques
But the task of repeating
myself makes me feel as if
I have eight hairy legs to trip over.

I am no threat to you
Yet you must correct me
Thunderous in your need to be right
My grasp on our friendship feels tenuous

This territory remains familiar
I tread with precious care
You are a timekeeper who watches
watches continually until

Sometimes a simple conversation with you
isn’t.

7/22/2003 {c} Stephanie Lynch aka Arwen Nightstar

Originally posted in the Poetry Challenge Thread. Come join us!
http://www.butch-femme.com/portal/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=231061

EDITED 7/28/2012: Interestingly enough, the person this was about continued to be such a difficult person that I eventually had to cut her out of my life completely.

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