(2014)
You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I thought I could drink you away but I had to stop being so drunk on you first
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 see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
Life is an uphill struggle Nothing comes easy and only hard work pays off I don’t like hard work was my 5 word protest
There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
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
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
