(2014)
I grew up in a house built in 1937 long before codes and regulations and sometimes
If I was once the tallest mountain your love was the wind that eroded me to nothing
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
Under the weight of life I forget how to breathe and I feel suffocated I hesitantly make peace with the world
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
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
Everyday brings a new death in three words give or take Some days I drown
I see no joyous rebirth in spring for autumn will bring another death I see no joyous rebirth
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer
I see poems that need to be written scrawled in the shape of your smile and the lines of your face
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
