Mimi and Mona - Poetry: Past the Point of Poetry

©PAST THE POINT OF POETRY

Mimi Wolske

August 29, 2014

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I did not anticipate you...

The smell of you in my hair

When it's time for either of us to leave.

Miles and miles between us,

Measurable by fuel, passports, barbed wire.

I have whispered your name in my sleep,

The emptiness next to me holding it

For months until parallel lines

Cross our paths -- walking towards you,

You running alongside me,

Charting you in the stars

All summer, anticipating something

I only name when we're finally together

You could write it in my blood that

This is only the middle of a very long story.

We kiss as if it's fate;

We can't stop convincing ourselves it isn't.

I don't cling to you -- not my style,

But I think we spend to many nights

Trying to force ourselves into the cracks

Of the floorboards and coming up

Rootless when our nights are spent apart.

I did not pray for this.

Time is never entirely erased...

We're part of each other,

Made of the same stuff as war criminals,

As Mount Everest,

As the last person we kissed with any emotion.

You press your emotion into me

On lazy mornings at the lake,

Or on road trips.

I press mine into you with every word I write.

When we part,

I forget how to navigate through normal life,

Rushing headlong into it, perfectly careless

As Lupus' girl playing in the snow.

We are on a mission...laughing,

Talking, fingers intertwined.

You said it first. "Try it...just see how it feels."

And it felt like my insides were burning,

Like my heart was on fire,

Like I could feel every sensation to the core of me...

You knew I'd like it.

I still like it.

Professions of love on the phone

At two a.m. in the morning

Are like arithmetic...

Statistically ending in bed

Past the point of poetry.