By Liz
Date: 2004 Nov 07
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Eternal Sunsine

Would I erase you?

nights of tears and recriminations
pleading, banging on the bathroom door
chasing you from party to bar
to liquor store trying to protect you
from yourself when you didn't want
to be saved and you hated me for it
every second that I contained you
you cursed me and railed at me
and hated me for it.

but too there were nights of such intensity
such beauty and tenderness and heat
bare naked and down to the bones truth
hazy mornings of sated fulfillment
and whispered promises, private jokes
a thousand small moments images
snapshots that made me glad from my
head to my heart that you
were mine.

One day, the tearing pain of your memory
will dull to a hazy nostalgia
your memory will be more sweet than
bitter and always I will be glad
that for one short year
I lived on the edge of my emotions
I rode the rollercoaster of good and bad
I felt it all.
And I will be grateful that I remember
every moment.