I Love You

I love you
I love you
I know you don't love me the way that I love you
But that fact does not halt or destroy my love for you
I love you because I love you
The mention of you moves my soul

Tattoos From You

You left glorious tattoos of your name on my soul
If my soul was visible, we would see this ink in all its wonder
The needle you used for this art did not hurt when you were drawing
There were no bruises or pain
The pain came when you stopped drawing
Now I have thousands of tattoos of your name on my soul, all of them crying out in selfish and selfless abandon for more.

Happy Day, I Know Your Name

Dear Sweetie, I know my happiest day will be when I see you again. No matter where life takes me, I know this day, above the others, will be my happiest. I know that we will most likely never be 'together', but I am okay with that. I will be thankful just to see you again. Just to see you smile again is worth so much to me, even if I'm not your reason. I know this happiness because I can see it. I feel what happens to me when I think about it. I feel the elation. I may watch too many movies, but I know that this happiness is not fantasy or fiction. I can sense it.

I Will End My Selfishness

Everyday the absence of you from my life creates in me a yearning to see you again
My soul, and all of me feels so far from you my love, that it creates in me a stillness that is crippling

But this yearning feels selfish. I endeavor everyday to change it, to yearn for your well-being more than I yearn to see you again, to gaze in your direction, to hear your dreams, to tell you mine

Just please be well, and let your spirit be enriched. If this melancholy brings you down, ignore it, ignore me

I will no longer be selfish

I Don't Need Convincing

My Dearest One, this is a little note to tell you,
I won't need convincing
I won't need convincing to put you first
I won't need convincing to take care of you
To be the shoulder you rest your head on
To rest my head on your shoulder
To be taken care of by you
To wrap you in warmth
To blow your nose running with the luckiest mucus in the world
To be squeezed to sleep by your arms
To give you the only pillow
To share one pillow with you
To lie awake thinking of the coming days we share
To have you to hold me when I fall
To hold your hand when you need assurances
To hold your hand just to hold your hand
To be an extra mirror that reflects your lights back to the stars
To have you as a mirror that reflects mine
Then you and I will both be mirrors
I will reflect your light and you will reflect mine
And we will be reflecting the same light, for your light is you and my light is you
This will be a most beauteous illumination

I won't need convincing at all Dearest One

I've Been Thinking

If television, books, and poetry are right
That heartbreak is the test of love, its nectar
That when you fall in love
And that love happens to break
You will fall hardest when your love is most true
Then I say, yes, let the fall after the break induce fractures on my face
Let the fall from the stumble be so violent that I weep for the garden that I once walked through
Let the fractures be so deep that you can see the bones
But on these bones will be more than calcium
The memories of smiles she induced will be on these bones
These bones will hold up a face in stoic pose
A face that just wants to cry, smile, scream, cry some more, and even laugh
What will ignite these bones to loosen their grip on this face?
Only her

But for now I say that I am blessed to make of this fractured face, a beautiful Frankenstein

The Dual Nature of Pain

Love needs pain in order to grow, and pain needs love so it can heal