i love you
i don't know if i like you
i like to be
what you like

you love love
not quite the type
i've always wanted
i'll keep you in the dark
about that

i heard you hum
a silly song
i couldn't see
the sound waves in the air
but i felt them pass right through me
as if i were a rock in a mountain stream
as if i were a meadow in the spring rain

i relish in it
this hard time
i live with it
in my mouth
and its weight
on my shoulders

we walk together
less towards
the finish line
more towards
an understanding:
this is how
you prepare
for the hard things
yet to come

black coffee

dry wine

the sour sting
of waking up with love
troublesome and futile
mingled with sweetness
of knowing what the poets talked about

it's not that i'm afraid
of how you will react
the words just
scar my skin
as they leave my mouth

i want to talk about you
to everyone i know
i want to shut my mouth
and keep you to myself
my heart flares up
explodes with thoughts of you
and i can't catch the words
and i can't catch my breath

sometimes i let it go
i'm disentangled
i listen to the wind
i mourn the things i haven't lost yet