Sunday, April 17, 2011

Softly speaking, or touching, the voice says

Softly speaking, or touching, the voice says
whatever it means to say
given the proclivity towards fast love
we both adopt the idea of choosing our words
careful, and slow.

But neither of us know lagging in practice
nor is it our concern
so we circle closer in and closer out
waiting for punctuation to a sentence
neither of us care to end.

We want our words to be complicated
to complicate
to make the other believe we are ready
not to care about a consequence–

funny that we’d both care.

Funny we turned out to lie together,
the same way.