Requiem Para Un Amor

Today I'm gonna say at length how much you hurt me:
the night takes your shape, screaming at me.
Today I'm gonna say that if I haven't died, it's because I'm waiting
on the edge of the water in the storm
in our likeness that I believe in
completely, nobly, yeah, I haven't died.

I'm gonna shout that I love you despite you, for you,
eternally mine, wholly, all of it,
painfully like a bird in flight,
completely mine and again and always.
Today I'm gonna say how much you hurt me,
today I'm gonna say "you hurt me, so much."

Oh, love, the afternoons still chase me.