I Grant I Never Saw a Goddess Go - Jonathan Chin

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Tonight
is perfect. There’s no moon
in the sky. Your eyes
are neither stars
nor diamonds. There’s no light.
They’ll kill us
if they see us
but all I need
is to feel you
through this darkness.
I’ll forfeit
your sight and sound
for your warmth
instead.
Let’s roll
around in the dirt
and ash - these
are soft
things. The Earth
was made
for our hunted youth.
Nothing shines.

There is the East
and Juliet is the Sun.
They need astronomies
to count their love.
Tristan and his Irish princess
knew oceans of distance;
we have only inches
built into our fingers
to measure our

romance.

If conception is a wild light
visible for miles through the deception
of cityscapes and perspective
then we’re the cold spot
that doesn’t burn as brightly.

Let’s not be spectacular together.
Let’s be not-spectacular together.
Let’s let our love be ordinary and forgetable
so it’ll last any bit longer.

Comments

[geosh.livejournal.com]

woah

[ladyjeanetta.livejournal.com]

Lovely... Thank you.

[aimlesswanderer.livejournal.com]

Oh.

./w

[fuzzilla.livejournal.com]

Oh, so so lovely.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_chimoms/]

i love this. Thank you!