Poems from shel
I burn,
not like whiskey
or cigarettes,
but like a forest fire
or a hydrothermal vent,
with all the weight of the ocean on it
still...
You are like a typhoon
Everything is thrown aside
I'm drowning in your suddenness,
Reveling in your unapologetic intensity.
You live like...
I shouldn't have,
I know.
But for so many years,
I should have.
It's just that,
I think,
You
will never feel like a...
My heart beats out your name
(and I wish it would stop),
In morse code you flow through my veins
(Trevor, Trevor, - .-. . ...- --- .-.),...
I miss having hickies;
you still leave me
love notes, once in a while.
But never on my skin.
Love is not love
when you have to think...