XI

a post for a girl I love

August 9, 2007
My Platonic Lover
rosy from pink wine
popularity in a box
this folly of a love
affair -I don't know him
I know you -you guess my words
without saying them for me
no private abuse
no need for pure tolerance
so we smoke too much
-cut down when time & finance allows

insults never made up in glory
but with you -I've never been happier
all my sorrow now disassociated
I hurt no more for you
that feels decades past
we laugh -eyes burn dry
to pleasant death
open ears to any hour

July 30, 2008
Love
in some & many ways
we are tarnished proportionally
assets rearranged
disassemble all too easy
scab & scar & wrenched in two

past the envy & bitter comebacks
arms & chins line up
fit snug
get past this creeping
hall of mirrors
shards at our callused feet

we so strong
fall hard & weep
only when the other
is near
in mind -in some unspoken abyss
we always fall
side by side