i am waiting for the one moment that changes everything.

 

“I’m pulling you out of the burning buildings and you say I’ll give you anything. But you never come through.”

“‘Cause I couldn’t make you love me and I’m tired of pulling your teeth.”

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand. Do you know how it ends?”

Wishbone
Richard Siken

[Whitney sent me this poem today and there were some lines I really loved. I’ve had a few people tell me I sometimes write in a way that looks like it could potential be poetry, but I’ve never thought it that way. Recently I began to look at poetry differently, and I’m really starting to enjoy it.]

“my heart was too big for my body so I let it go. and most days this world has thinned me to where I am just another cloud forgetting another flock of swans, but believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces.”

“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling).”

-e.e. cummings