“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest
where no-one sees you, but
sometimes I do, and
that sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

Thursday, January 31, 2008

part 3: odds 'n ends

I love her
so I tell her last night

'Remember,
when you wake up tomorrow
it was NOT a dream
it really happened
so DON'T think it was a dream
because if you do
even for a brief moment
the pain will sneak up on you
and stab you in the heart.

So remember my sweet
it was not a dream
it really happened
don't let that heartless b*****d
sneak up on you'

on our way out today
- our second memorable journey
in four weeks
she sings along with Michael Stipe
about having a 'bad day'

my heart breaks
it must contain
rather a lot of
rising damp

so I do the old deep breath-look up
and some rapid eye movement
(Mr Stipe approves)
and it works again

I'm hugging
a grenade
in mid-explosion
the shrapnel loves me
makes me feel alive

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