I Told Her I Loved Her
For all
of my days-
in every
kind of
storm,
I will remember
the night I
said it
out loud.
Riding a
rocket of
a few more
than I should
Diamond Bear
beers from the
the cooler
and a cheerful
crowd for
my lines,
we stood on
a downtown
sidewalk
littered with
cigarette butts
and past hope
dreams.
She held me
in those
fucking
rain forest-
green eyes.
Rapt.
I do,
I do.
I really do
love you...
I don't
want you,
well I do
but I don't
expect
anything.
Hell, the
damn thing
works better
if you don't...
I just want
to write you
ten thousand
love poems.
She smiled
and that
was good
enough
for me.
