i.
last night
I had a moment
of overwhelming humanity
and I cried
for troubles
that do not belong to meii.
I told you that it’s not the world
you should worry about changingiii.
I’m not trying to make
a political statement
but I don’t want my children
to be born into a world
that tells them
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself—
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.
I. We are meant to be cataclysms
hardwired to shatter
into a million pieces of sound,
of sky, when someone touches us.
Do not be afraid of stillness.
When your body melts like love,
it is really just going to war.II. You will hold your breath
and skip algebra homework
and ask the world
if you…
I’ve anchored myself
to my own sorrow.
People call that masochism,
I call it relief.
I love so terribly, so vastly,
too deeply like the ocean
that I’m turmoiled in the waves.
The sunlight leaves the surface
and the moon wanes from the tides
and I lose myself in the darkness of it all.
It’s…
You are the ghost
You appear all the time
that keeps haunting
my memories.
no matter how many times
I try to bury you.You are the ghost,
but I am the one who died.
I would write you,
one hundred pretty poems,
to ease your worried mind,
but no amount,
of scatter words,
or curious syllables,
could ever illustrate,
these shaking fingertips,
or the feeling of a,
newly healed heart,
once again,
racing vigorously.
I could write you,
one hundred pretty poems,
to…
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You finally build up walls and say, GYM TIME AGAIN!!
I don’t want to be
your entire world, no.
I would be happy
just to be your morning coffee,
your hanging car keys,
your wallet.
Something seemingly
insignificant,
but if lost throws off
your entire day.
