1. I picked you out 
From the crowd 
With fate 
As my compass. 
 
We talked 
For hours 
And kissed 
All evening 
And I took you to my bed 
And we made love 
And we made a universe 
With just you and me 
For a time. 

Your breath is  

                          new    

                                    wet 

                                              hope 

 
For my  

              old  

                       dry  

                                heart. 

I like to watch 
The stars 
Shoot out the ends of your veins 
At night, 
And the 
Sky 
In the skin 
On your face 
While you sleep. 

The lines on your palms 
Draw beauty 
And trace it 
Like string 
To your wrists. 

When you wake 
Your eyes 

Are magnets 
For mine 
And your lips 
Are tandem with my lips 
And your hands 
Make mine 
Infinite. 

And I feel 
For a while 
That I am  
Transcendent 
In you. 

2. Your words 
Cut,  
Like razor 
On skin. 
 
They sting, 
And turn 
Our universe 
To sadness 
And a fever-fury. 

I need you. 

You’re 
The air that 
Flows to my lungs 
And goes to my blood 
And shoots though my 
Arteries, 
Like a current. 

Don’t go, 
I’m empty 
Without 
Your 
Soft white love 
And your 
Tiny cherry lips, 
Smiling all pretty. 

Without all of you I am a vacuum.  

3. I am not happy, 
I hope you 
Aren’t happy 
And not smiling 
And I hope your  
Next universe 
Disintegrates. 

I think that 
I won’t make one 
For a long time. 
 
Maybe I’ll find someone 
To make one with 
One day, 
But for now 
I am fine 
With my own, 

Solitary 

                 little 

                            reality.  

I will drown my senses 
With liquid gold 
That turns all thought 
And feeling 
To numbness, and nothing. 
 
While time 
Slowly 
Mends.