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By Misti Date: 2004 Apr 28 Comment on this Work [[2004.04.28.11.11.10374]] |
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when i was living in a crappy apartment in Wichita Falls with my mom and brother and sister writing about Atari and Ms. Pacman and school lunches and crushes and gymnastics in my Snoopy diary you were eating magic mushroom pizza at Chuck E. Cheese's in Albuquerque with your friends on lunch break going back to school high making all A's and not even trying when I was dying for love at nineteen a small Texas town sheltered virgin in love with another Michael this one a Capricorn and only a month older you were bolder than I've ever been a drummer for three different bands making "Reality Check" in San Francisco a Kiss fan with long hair hotter than hell in black leather breaking hearts like candy chewing up life and spitting it out like watermelon seeds yesterday you came over and I was so relieved to see you I was stupid annihilated by Cupid all I could do was smile into your benevolent hazel eyes breathe you in believe you when you said you loved me and I'm beautiful and my eyes change colors you're the first to tell me that before you they were just blue cornflower blue, kind of gray no way were they green before you have shaken me to my core and there will be no more melancholy no more masochism we inhale each other and soar higher than we ever imagined possible I tell you that you are home I'm home from the wild seas seized, salt drying in my hair "terra firma," you say and I tell you my legs are wobbly and I am sea monster haunted too many bad mermaids and smelly sailors but I want to see the seas again with you ride the waves be storm tossed and glad last night we discussed how deeper and better it gets...never static or stagnant and we studied the soul mate spell in my new Wicca book you tell me you know because no other woman has ever permeated your dreams so completely you prayed to the Goddess in your car and she knew you weren't joking and so I came to you and you didn't recognize me right away and I thought I knew you but I wasn't sure but now we both know and we are glowing the eight years and lifetime between us melting like snow in the valley of the Sandias we see everyday and take for granted. |