i dont want the things i dont know about you
to become permanently unknowable.
which is to say
please stay.
spill your heart
on my ripped jeans like morning coffee,
clumsily, everywhere,
& when it is most uncomfortable.
you dont have to hold me constantly,
just when i need it,
enough to know im wanted.
this burning building body i call home
does not need gasoline,
nor to be extinguished.
please just learn to appreciate the imbalance.
a careless constant carnival act.
what i could say,
what i should say,
english becomes foreign
when trying to speak to you.
i apologize ahead of time.