Letter To No One #1

I'm not very good
at letters to no one.
But she's taught me
a few things for you.
So I'll try.

Dear No One,
I wish you'd stayed.
This is it. This
is the life
I'd been waiting for. This
is that life
that devalued the nights.
If I died before today's sun rises,
persimmon gold & holy
the only thing I'd regret is that
I have not felt
the breathlessness, the
asphyxiation of love.
I really wish you'd stayed.
All it took was eyes, nothing
more, nothing less. After
all, it's not like I could
give you the complexity
of the doubt.

Today, I learned
that the reason you
weren't there was
because you were in
Mexico. I think she said
you were with your family.

When that persimmon
set in my West
I suppose it still set in
yours too.

Your flight comes this morning.
I really wish you'd stayed.






In Mexico.