FOR YOU

FOR YOU

This is for you, because I cannot reach you 

For you, because my heart is filled with you 

You overflow me, every corner 

Of me, every fragile bone 
Every elastic ligament 

All of me is you 

 I write for you because you are so far away 

And I can only talk to you in words 

My hands can never touch your skin 

My lips would like to kiss yours 

I want your hands to push my chair 

To touch my every longing 

My brittle bones 

 This is for you, because with eyes closed 

I hear your voice dancing around 

I see your eyes smiling with mischief 

I feel your kisses featherlight 

And I cry, in painful knowledge 

That this perhaps will never be 

That you'll be only memory

***

Poem by Darren White

September 28, 2016