P.S. I Miss You.
2.15.01

Words were so simple for so long.
What happened?
Where did my reason leave off
and my emotions seep in?

Me, your sister-love
          (that fraternal adoration in you!)
Waiting in silence so loud I could hear it
          wrapped in white twine and sad roses

So far away...
I couldn't have made it simple, heaven forbid.
I gave my heart's blood to one
            whose face is a stranger
            whose touch is alien to my skin
            whose eyes...
             those eyes...
Tack down my flighty soul and hold it together
             (
clumsily sewn, loving stitches)
Knowing someday the skies would be ours...

            
if we could wade through the sinking sand
              and find that fragile paper door that led to the kingdom
              that scorns distance and belief...