I think you lovely and twirl this curiosity between stiff fingers In another time it is myself I would have twisted to win your love
Tag: relationships
Home Stretch
We can go a long time each of us hoping that maybe if we hold on hold out, hold tight then everything at last will be all and right This is a lie we tell ourselves, each other Hope alone cannot get us home
Stone
This beautiful stone dances on my finger though we are long past each other I turn and let it catch the light to remember what it was to hope for a future together
Words
What can I say to you about you without wounding? My every word a weight by which you judge yourself success or failure I cannot bring myself to injure you with what I think is true Facing such profound fragility and infantile defense it is only cruelty to convey How far short you fell from what my small heart needed all along
Two
Oh, Sugar I wish I didn't know what it's like to love two at a time To love the vowed and the dislocated longing across distances gripping the messages from that other world Belonging everywhere and nowhere at once I wish I didn't know the ache of wanting something different for your children than you need for yourself I wish I knew the way to be two
He Asks
Have I missed my chance? He asks too late I have already packed up my projections the people I thought you were and put them in the bin
Ring
A wedding ring wields a magical power: it can make a woman invisible even to herself
Say
You awake from a sound sleep or a good enough date with a perfectly nice person and say to yourself: I wasn't thinking I wasn't feeling You appear at my door a little breathless hopeful and afraid not knowing if I can forgive your error And I say
Convince Me
I'm going to need a talking to a good one plenty of sweet words soft sounds and cold hard proof that it is in my best interest to love you again
What I Wish
I ride home tonight laugh-kissed and weary after poetry with friends There you are at my door waiting patiently to persuade I'm sorry I'm late, you say It took me a lifetime to get here