we have loved alive
and then destroyed
because they didn’t turn out to be
who we expected them to be?”
thank you for inspiring me to be
the girl who survived.
you may have
a lightning bolt
to show for it,
but my body is a
lightning storm.”
as usual in such matters
significance filled everything-
your eyes, the things you
knew, the way you turned,
leaned, stood, or sat,
this way or that.”
Unless I loved you like fire first
So take this bullet as a compliment.”