Day 3
January 28, 2009
But like a gold record you were
Only attainable after enough hard work
Just pretty enough to be frame able
So you were my favorite piece of artwork
Hung up on the mantle next to our best friends
Impossible and friendship never go hand in hand
To prevent us from ever grazing hands
We ignored them
But
The urgency of every urgent text
Gone unseen was beginning to make my fingers bleed
The vinyl of your protected heart was spinning
Lips unable to touch
So I wrote your name on my green veins
So that at least my pulse could kiss you
Uncertainly seeping into my arm
like morphine
dulling the pain
You can call me shallow but
I couldn’t see your face anymore
So the blue of page and ink of my pen
to write out every feature mimicking movements
With made up words like beautifulness
Trading smiles or similes
Morphine for metaphors
Hearts for one better for
You
