by Angel Liu

Created on: August 11, 2011

to the breath i belong

you are the breath
i lost a long time ago 
somewhere deep in my body
the gasp that you are 
wandered away and I'd forgotten.

once in a while I remember
when I am awed by all I survey 
from the craggy seat
of my silent mountain, so used am i 
to wallowing in the mist 

that i forget you are there.
i grasp at you but with good humor

for my intense fear, tell myself 
you can't be real,
that I dreamed you through 

the treachery of all my sorrows, 
made your name up 
as my tongue twisted and froze in cries
and the lies of reason
had crazed me 

with enough torment 
so I make an effort to look 
all regular, to justify
my amnesia and my blindness 
because pretending is the norm

and I suck at it big time. 
You do too.  So you come out
of the Wilds of Fate to 
fill me, the acid of fruit and flowers, 
the knife of life

you bite and bite
till you make me spill 
and throb your name like a song,  
then i am there again 
in the humid world 

of your skin against mine, 
the insensibility of wanting 
neither of us can avoid, 
the forever temptation
of thinking that maybe 

with you, I belong.  

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