DISTANT LOVE
Aahhh!!! What is this month loves, what is this month? I have been feeling a cocktail of things and it is not even tasty to be honest. I have been sad, so terribly sad and anxious and tired everything feels impossibly difficult, like Sisyphus and his boulder.
Last Monday I didn’t leave my bed for 16 hours straight because it just felt like too much. I know that Corona has come with it’s fair share of feelings and thoughts but dammit I am not looking to enter a depressive episode in this season of my life. However I am finding love for myself in the little things. Finishing a questionnaire for a study my friend and I worked really hard on, painting my nails in a bold red colour, reading a beautiful book and last but definitely not least I have poetry month.
For the first time in a long time I have applied consistency and I am proud of myself. So I am here to share the third week of my poems. I hope you too can find love and joy in the little things as I have found love and joy in my little words.
Bold Love
I want my love,
Bold
Like this red dress
Bringing men to their knees
Mine
As is the skin
Worn on this body
Soft
Like these hands
Making light what was heavy
True
As it was
The first time I loved you
But Darling
You’ve always been worthy
Of good love and second chances
Believe it
Please
Believe it
For Mumzie
What do you call
A gift
Freely given
Fully undeserving?
I call mine
Mom
You smell like books
Bathed in deep words
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Aged like old paper
Indelible in history.
It’s in the way,
your brush strokes
Change the skin
On this canvas
You are the artist
I am the muse
This love
The product of our art
Outside won't fill your hunger.
You're insatiable
You've always been
Wholeness is an inside job
Distant love
How does your lover
Touch you
Without touching you?
At dawn, he sends you pictures of the empty space in his bed meant for you.
At midday, he prepares a meal for two,by one.
At dusk he asks, "Do you know your voice heals me?"
At midnight he confesses the depth of his love .
Daily, he reminds you that though he is not with you ,he is never without you.
That’s it for week 3 and we are almost done for April. Please let me know if you’ve a favourite .
XoXo
J.A.
