Tell Me

Oh, for all your stubbornness! Smugness smirked, ensue duress
with one eye opened seeks one less, the fight that balks at emptiness
feigned indifference waning quick, with tightened chords on which to trip
with knowing look- impassioned imp!- endure the very brunt of it
dare me, now- articulate, in widened eyes in wizened state
to expel truths to satiate the hunger pangs that words negate
and though thought tumbles, jumbled, true, it hesitates to give its proof
too en-rapt' to let tongue loose, but too wound now to lay aloof

Is this the gasp you sought to steal-consent to bend in heightened zeal?
What you wanted from you peel'd- exploitative of the corporeal?
In headiness of slick moment,
extracted from me facilement