Monday, January 19, 2009

I Will Write You

I Will Write You
by Khari D. Hawke



I will write you letters that, 
When placed from end to end, 
Will span the length of this planet and back again 

I will write your name between the lines 
On the dot of every "I" 
I will write you 

I will write you so carefully 
You will see your reflection in my handwriting 

I will write you for every word I cannot say 
Let my letters convey 
This feeling that grows within me 

I will write your pain in past tense 
My presence felt in each sentence 
I will write you 

I will write ink blots 
For every tear drop 
You have refused to shed 
Over love lost 

I will write you seductively 
With each slow stroke of the pen 
So you can read the mood I’m in 
Over and over and over 
Again 

I will write you with explicit ease 
With words fit to tease 
Your psyche 

I will write your name with mine 
In cursive so that each letter is intertwined 
Like the snakes our legs make 
When you’re making me quake 

I will write you in paragraphs 
Thick and lengthy 
With run-ons and fragments 
Whatever movement 
We just spent 
Scribbling on pads of bed-sheets 
Where our souls meet 

I will write your future on the palm of my hand 
So that I can carry you with me 
Daily 

I will write your name as an unhappened memory 
So that each time I hear it 
Déjà vu will come over me 
Have me sweating soliloquies 
On side streets 

I will write you 
A never ending story 
Of possibility 

I will write you

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