Thursday, January 1, 2015

Darling Girl

I wish that I could say I
loved some little strangeness in
your face, a quirk of a mole,
some ghostly scar across your
cheek, a way you have of
smiling. But I am not the charming
hero of a charming film, and
I was not drawn to a small
thing about you—though of course
you were lovely in your darkness
and warmth, and the curl of
your hair and your enamel-bright
eyes and the weight of you
when you happened to find some
reason to be pressed against me—
I was bound to you entire. Your
wit and your happy cruelty, your
earnest irony in the service of
greater things. 

All I wanted was
you, whole and fiery,

but not all wants are better fed.

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