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By Ali Date: 2007 Sep 27 Comment on this Work [[2007.09.27.09.42.14873]] |
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Your absence suffocates me in the painfully obvious way that only absence can— and it feels ridiculous to be so vulnerable, but there’s a good possibility that you could lose me— and it’s a shocking repercussion, really, to suddenly wonder how much you’d care. Doubt hadn’t occurred to me until this morning. But there it is, like a winding sheet made of satin and secrets, too indelicate to be lace, but red— red for many reasons. If you know what’s good for you, you won’t let me go. If I know what’s good for me, I’ll run— but away or toward? I whisper. I scream. I might as well implode, because in this I created and invited chaos, lovely disasters that spin and smile, offsetting and resetting the balance, even when there is no center, except… except your goddamned smile. |