There are strawberry fields between your knuckles
that crack and bleed when you close your fist.
But you won’t wear gloves, you won’t wear mittens;
you say you love the winter’s kiss.Even when the rest of the world has hidden
underneath the frosty snow and ice,
you stand outside with your arms wide open
and tilt your head up towards the sky.Though your hands and legs are red and numb
and the snow and sleet begin to fall
you won’t come in until you’re frozen
because then you cannot feel at all.
Tag: anniepoem
Even When You’re Here
language fails to express
the most profound darknesses of the heart–
the small cracks between the fertile soil of the
soul where only God goes.
There is no one where I am,
seeing through these eyes or
hearing through these ears, or
feeling the darkness in my stomach.
In all that I am,
I am utterly, darkly, alone.
Sweet one, who taught you that you are not worthy of your own love? Don’t you know that once you’ve realized your worth, you are infinite?
Physics
the atoms i am made of
are mostly empty space.
what does that make
me?
you are a pond
in the dead of winterand i heave myself at you like
a stone that shatters
the still surfacesending splinters echoing
through the ice
like small electric currentsi unsettle
the mud that has lain
tranquil at the bottomand i turn the water brown
i scare the fish
away.
There was no hurricane warning the morning you hit me.
I will always want you, but I will never need you.
I knew the lonely parts of your heart.
They were my campgrounds
when my walls began to burn and
the ash and smoke threatened
to suffocate me beneath my
crumbling ribcage.When it was winter in my heart,
and my veins became
frozen red rivers,
you always had a fire going
in yours.
I would huddle inside the
crevices between
your atriums and swim in your
bloodstream until I, too, was red
underneath your skin.
Tsunami
i’m not even sure what these
three words
mean, but I know
when I look at you
there is a tsunami inside me and
the waves scream
I love you I love you I love you.
We Look For Answers
in the palms of our hands,
on narrow roads that
twist and intersect.in wishing well eyes,
uprooting the fibrous tunic in
our frantic pursuit.in echoing cathedrals
where we lay our souls upon
wilting flower beds.in brilliant garbage dumps,
piled high, distorted into
siren’s songs.in the mountains and grasslands and
the coursing veins that run through
the dirt we were and will be.in the folded up papers
whose true triviality is unknown
until we are weaved
back into the earth.in the booming echoes of
our voices as we stand on
elevated hills and yell into the valleys
below.where they cannot be found,
for they reside far beyond
existence.