tell me
how to know what is truth and what is almost
how to know what I have imagined into existence
when I spend my life creating
when half my head is filled with fiction
and my breath spells out promises I have not written down
a big sky
can make me believe in god
a glance
a shiver
a little bit of different in me
can make me believe in you
I am dust caught in your cobwebs
and bits of origami
the ones you leave
so often here
where you listen
where you move space but it is deliberate
where you touch me
where you speak my tongue’s memory into existence
see me and you might think
I am changing
live it and I know
I am so roughly becoming
another ending
I can’t seem to find the beginning in
I will surround you with faeries and demons
and everything we have created
I will surround you with everything I have saved for you
knowing your words are a world
a world where kissing you is breathing and I don’t want to stop
a world where I will package myself up
in a pretty little bow for you
but I would so often sin for the idea I have become
burn all the shelters down
a world where all we know is lightning
but the right kind this time
in between I will perfect these glass houses
can’t love you from way over here
know that world will never spill me out its edges
so I make another masterpiece of a day last
so it’s worth a lifetime
I applaud the coversational
I applaud the coversational tone with which this poem conveys its contents. And that final stanza---that brilliant, triumphant, and very profound final stanza---releases a tremendous, and highly encouraging, power.
J-Called