a poem a day while my heart is away*

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is for the villainous smile in the miles that keep us apart, taunting me and haunting me in my sleep and in my veins
E there's extraordinary beauty in your eyes and extraordinary cruelty in the gods that don't let me see you every minute of forever and ever
LOVE is made for you and me, except we have to work for it, swim against the current for it

and for all my complaining, I don't mind