Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Innocent Smile


You look like poetry
and taste like Peruvian sunshine.
Mother taught me to never fall in love with guys
unless his smile reaches his eyes.
But I was never taught what to do and how
to feel when I see the corners of your lips lift
so high up into the clouds.
It takes me to Heaven and it gives me Hell.
It has been the greatest gift,
but it has been
my greatest sorrow
to have let you go.

Life is not always about winning
and losing,
but I lost myself in your eyes
each time you smiled.
You are the closest thing to an angel -
if only you had wings.

For all my life, I had thought that
I could write better than anyone
could ever feel it, until
the moment
your nose twitched when you were smiling.
It leaves me
with a swirl in my stomach,
it leaves me
with a pain in my chest,
and it leaves me
with no words to describe
how much I want you
to stay in my life.

This is the first time ever I have felt them all at once -
the joy, the agony,
the magic, the bliss,
the desperation, the felicity -
baby that's what you do to me.