you remind me of Lightning

I know your brand of anger:
I recognize the shell of quietness
shielding circuits of complexity beneath.
I sense the electric backdrop trying
to provoke out of you another
spectacular release.

I know how the madness beckons,
darkness’ beacons underneath the resolve.
Cancerous desperation -
sprinting through the mazes of fate
of a broken world yearning
to break you, too.

The cold blade on the skin brings solace,
I know you know this.

I know how you find the silence so eloquent,
her fluency in the language of your soul
demands that you fall in love with her.

But listen: I love you more.
I know you better.
I fell for you first.



2010.sep.01