I Remember..

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Nobody does the right thing.
~ Marie Kreutz, Bourne Identity.




i remember learning you jump

in your sleep and smile

when you wake up

at first you cuddle 

then one arm across my stomach

then one leg touching my leg then

you turn your back



but you smile when you wake up



i was surprised to know you don't care

if your lamp burns all night and that you could

play ohmeohmy over and over again just

because you remembered



i discovered you don't like hair

in your bahtroom sink and never step

your wet feet onto a clean rug



you will answer your phone

but you don't talk too long and you do

rub my toes and make faces

while you talk

and your voice told her anyway

that i was there



you can get up at three and make sandwiches

and orange juice and tell jokes

you sometimes make incoherent sentences

you snore

and you smile when you wake up



i know you cry when you're hurt

and curse when you're angry

and try when you don't feel

like it and smile at me

when you wake up



these things i learned through

a simple single touch

when fleshes clashed




~Nikki Giovanni