Love Song of the Unloving
written by: Jackie Chou
I know you love me, you say.
How are you so sure, I wonder.
I suppose I do,
as I love nothing else.
I don’t love to write,
don’t love bird songs,
the shards of sunlight
that spill through the blinds
all day.
So it could be true,
that I love you,
relatively speaking,
that compared to a dandelion,
a sparrow, a tree,
I like you a little more.
This small preference,
for the sight, the sound,
the scent of you,
accumulates daily, nightly,
hourly, monthly, yearly,
like drops of honey
add up to syrupy love,
which one tastes in one’s heart.
Ah, love,
you are sweeter than stardust,
shinier than dew.
Jackie Chou is a poet of free verses and Japanese short form poetry who has work forthcoming in Mollyhouse Lit and Cyan: an Anthology of Confessional Poetry. Her poem "Cycle of a Tree" was nominated for a Pushcart by Highland Park Poetry.
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