Thursday, June 04, 2015

All Love is Opportunity


I’m lost in this
thickening fog of Expectations
 fermenting beyond their prime
On who said what to who again
And when
As though if we can just
Uncover the blame thread
We can each hold up our own head
And cry righteous tears about our undead love
Still the only the thing we both know
Is what we can’t let go
Because once it was the only show
We wanted to watch
But now it is a stale rerun
Of knots that have been undone
Longer than either of us wanted to believe because
All love is opportunity
Even when the sheets are clean
Never to get dirty again
And all this linen we keep trying to wash
Is stained indelibly with us
But even so I fear
Our hearts will never be reopened
After all this vinegar soaking
 unless we stop provoking
All that we ever had will be tossed
Like leaves plucked off in summer
Never to let the tree recover
And if I don’t want to be lovers
It doesn’t mean
I don’t still
Love us

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Beautiful .

Unknown said...

I really like that!