I love your voice
It curls around me
like smoky incense
Arouses me
even as you speak
of oil changes and new tires
I love your laughter
It froths like uncorked champagne
Contagious, flirtatious
fusing the space between us.
How will I live without you?
You spoke the language
of poets and songwriters
Smooth, sweet, rich
I savored fine chocolate;
but I was mortally wounded
by your darkness
spinning out of control
on the tail of a comet
self-doubting and gloomy
abysmally lonely
terminally angry
rejecting that voice
deflecting that laughter
until the system pinging ceased.
I have been so busy hating you for so long
I forgot how much I love you.
(c)2008 Lucie Raposo - All rights reserved (republished 2022)
