Monday, March 22, 2010

Verse: Abuse

Before
you can enter

there's something
you should know

I chanted
your name

until it became
a koan

until it was
bruised and swollen

until it became
a language

that I could
not understand

and yet for all
the damage I inflicted

it still wanted you
almost as much as I do

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