If I have learned anything
it is that you can’t pull
a reflection out of a mirror.
What we call love
is simply the recognition
of self within another.
Hate is when that same person
disappoints your expectations
which is inevitable
because no two humans
are exactly the same.
–
I could be a sun
with my own heat and gravity
or I could be the moon
which follows.
If I knew how to be the sun
I would be the sun
but I possess
the physiognomy of the moon.
My mercurial blood burns
just as much going in
as it does coming out.
I never wear the same face twice
and my moods are always
tinged with melancholia.
–
A smile is just a little bird
with its wings outstretched.
Tears are punctuation
they appear whenever
an emotion gets too big
to cram into a single breath.
–
I am prepared to live
the exact same day
for the rest of my life.
This is what it means
to put your faith in lesser Gods.
I found myself in your eyes,
that little sliver of divinity
which speaks of union
and I fell in circles around you.
–
If I love this man enough
then I might just forgive myself
for a lifetime of neuroses and repetitions.
Only to forgive myself
it is necessary to keep him
and to keep him
it is necessary
to cut away the pieces of myself
that don’t fit.
–
Find an object to worship
and grow small with redundancy
or find the God within yourself
and become a universe
miraculous beyond measure.
Those are your only two choices.
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