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I would drown my emotions

and peel away these months

and melt my thoughts away with the spring thaw

I would dribble away in rivers down the soggy asphalt

(if you didn't have such a hold on me)

I would drop my mask

and tear off these chains

and crumble walls and cages

I would run away to the indigo lights

Where I could break all the sophisticated city boy hearts

(if you weren't my opiate)

I would run

and dance for you

and open your eyes

and shatter veils and hate

and whatever I've been telling you all this time

wouldn't mean a thing

I would kiss you so damn hard lights would collide

somewhere in the eternity between stars

(if there were any courage in my heart to do so)

I would take you down to the still waters

where everything is as virgin and fresh

as the night I heard the click inside me

I would prove to you

somehow

with my nail-bitten words

that love is dark matter

all the missing space

(if I could turn back time)

I would tell you

and die of joy

in your arms like pine trees

voice like summer

like

driving with the only person that ever meant that much to you

(if you only knew)