(2014)
Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
I write sharp words with a sharper knife on page after page of what might as well be the skin of my back
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
I spend my nights wishing on every star in the sky that you are alive and well
There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me
I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
To put it simply each beat of your heart is a gift that I receive with the anticipation of a child at christmas
Forever seems like so long until I think of all the times spent waiting
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
