A Love POEM
YOU
The sun kissed my eyes, tickling my cheeks as its rays danced along the walls of my eyelids
Sweet as honey
Quick! You don’t want your tongue to miss the sweet sugar taste before it leaves
Because it will leave.
It may last only a moment, but that doesn’t make it any less real
The warmth from the sun played tricks on me that morning, allowed me to melt into the notion that everything was good
How did my ears not pick up on nature’s warning signs?
Birds squaked instead of chirped
Wind howled and I misread the rattling in my stomach for butterflies
I was too blinded by pure bliss that when I rolled over, my body was not ready for your absence
How is it that Iead replaced my blood, weighing me down by the thousands, but the gaping hole in my chest left me sunken and hollow
I tried to swallow but choked because now the sugar tasted like what bitter loss felt like—You
How come “Money Can’t Buy Me Love” when money bought me chocolate and that chocolate brought me happiness, and when I think of happiness, my mind subconsciously ALWAYS travels back to sunny days sipping sophisticated sangria buzzed not on the liquor, but on your smile
Oh, God, even when I willed it not to that smile had the power to make my knees tremble and shake, and back then that was okay since I had your arms to steady me
My home used to be two beautiful emerald and six feet tall; although, you would argue that you were, in fact, six foot one
As if losing that extra inch meant lessening your worth and importance
Believe me, your ceiling was not limited to 73 inches
“There are a hundred green eyed boys,” they say
Yes, I know, but they’re not the same
See, they don’t understand that I fell in love with not only your beauty, but your heart and your brain
I look in the mirror, splash some water on my face
As if that will help drain away the pain
No, I need more water to drain this type of pain
Rain...but rain can be seen in the kiss-me-sorta-way and I don’t want to think about all the sunny days we had that are now stained gray
All those twisted lies you spoon fed me
Held them just out of sight
so that not once did I suspect you had my heart dangling on a tightrope the whole time
Tell me
How am I supposed to redefine love
When for so long I thought it was you?