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By Ali Date: 2007 May 08 Comment on this Work [[2007.05.08.08.26.3945]] |
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You made me braver, then, inexplicably incapable of surrender-- but surrender I did. You remember that, I trust. You were always playing hide-and-seek with my smile, and I was always turning your heart inside-out. Never mind the sheets. I know it's you. I know, without knowing. It's just my way. And I can't tell you why, or how, but I know when, like breathing underwater: it just happens. I won't even ask you where you've been, or why you stayed away so damn long (well, not right away--eventually). But hell if I won't kiss you like I mean it, exactly like I missed you, exactly like it's been far too long. Walk into the room, filled with a hundred people who know my face, remind me that gone does not mean forgotten, and leaving does not mean unloving, and show me how much coming home means to you (and by 'home', I mean me). I know you love me, and it's just a matter of time before you burn the world down (your world) to prove it, on just another May day, against impossible odds and ridiculous circumstances. And when you do, when you're there with that devil-may-care smile and combusting starlight in your eyes, when you hold me without asking because you know you don't need to, even still--when you find me I promise to make it worth your while. |