(2013)
I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
I say hello and you say nothing You may hear me you may even think of a response
I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
My heart was paper now folded six times over to make it harder to tear I only hope that
I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains
You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
