By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 30 December 1999

Sappy Crap

so many things I'll miss
      about you
my Holden Caulfield
     dream come true
my sweet idealist
my wandering knight
  you care about making
     wrong things
       right

the nights we shared
   will live in me
like a gently swaying
     anemone

no one can touch
what we found
and what I've saved
taking a picture of you
while you shaved
sharing so many
different beds
sharing the things 
that floated
through our heads

sweetest darling
  yummy man
so much love
in one life span
I could love you more
sixty years down the road
I could give you a wrinkled
hand to hold
I could remind you
to take your medicine
and eat your Vitamin C
and help you to the toilet
when you needed
to pee
I love who you were
before we met
and I love the you
I don't know yet
why, my darling,
can't you believe
I have love to give
-you only have to
    receive