It’s hard to wait around for something
you know might never happen;
but it’s harder to give up when you know
its everything you want.
— Unknown
Before you left,
I bent to my task, fixed in my mind
the slopes and planes of your face;
fitted, in some essential geography,
your belly’s stretch and collapse
against my own, your scent familiar
as a thousand evenings.
Another time,
I might have dismissed as hunger
this cataloguing, this fitting, this fixing,
but today I crest the hill, secure in the company
of my longing. What binds us, stretches…
— Donika Kelly from poem I Love You. I Miss You. Please Get Out Of My House
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