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By Misti Date: 2002 Jul 31 Comment on this Work [[2002.07.31.03.23.3965]] |
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today when you picked me up from my therapy session you surprised me with a first edition hardcover book of haiku inscribed with love and hope and like me you always include the date I hate that I have hurt you so needlessly without a thought of how it must feel having hard-won love turn around and rise up a snarling fanged demon fresh outta hell I hate that I can't erase the horror take the nightmares back and exchange them for the MGM musicals I claim to despise you know I'm not so hard and hateful, really and that is what has sustained you knowing there was something of the same woman who sent you boxes of toys and perfumed kisses hanging on but barely somewhere in the shadows sometimes at night when you are sleeping I watch you and feel my heart splintering what have I done what have we lost you were the one I was crying out for all those years when I looked through the purple pages of my Love is Now book thinking it would never be. |