i am most honest in my poetry
01/15/2006 11:14 p.m.
if i wrote a poem about you
would you think it was creepy
or desperate?
would you laugh
like the others have?

or would you
really listen
to what i had to say?
would you take it in
like a deep breath
and let it fill your lungs?

because i often feel the urge
to cry out to you
but it's been too long and
it's inappropriate
to speak at this point
because i'm expected to have
gotten over this

so i write these poems about you
or if i don't write, i say them in my head
softly, repeatedly,
hoping maybe you'll hear them
and understand me