Tongue tied

eschew affluence
and mark
my words,
we'll meet
at the
confluence
of love
in twain.
this sluiced effluence
signifies
tongue tied
emotions,
destroying
the eloquence of
intellectual motion.

cold symptoms
are my idiom,
sniffling,
sneezing,
slurring,
disguising
phantom thoughts
of us in tandem
under words
confused and random.