I Remember When You Used to Ask Me
written by: Melissa Lemay
what the most
beautiful thing I
saw that day was
and each time I
answered “Leland” because
he was, in fact,
the most beautiful
experience in my world
at the time;
limiting a person
to one beautiful thing
a day doesn’t seem fair;
there are so many
beautiful things in the world:
the lies that bleed
from the corners of your
smile, they reach
across years of
yesterdays and pray for
silence that only
the brightest rays
of sun can reach dancing
on the curls of your
hair; the earth
of your hands and the
way they might wrap
inside mine and I
will hold your secrets
there for as long
as you’d like, even if
you never tell;
the current
of restlessness that
lives inside your
spine, and with
it your ardent love
affair; how so
much honesty spills
from your mouth and I
believe it will
eventually find
its way back to your heart.
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