My First Language

MY FIRST LANGUAGE WAS NOT ENGLISH

From the bottom of my ventricle system

I must say

since my heart is completely gone

I want to acquaint you with

my journey from Stupidland.

I was thrown onto a subway from there

without a suitcase.

I was travelling light, since

the aorta pumps to nowhere now.

I made the mistake

of not telling her,

being unable to say,

not really knowing,

that I would love her forever.

From this I have learned:

Before you are dumped,

say I will love you forever.

I loved her for so long

many years after I last saw her

it might as well have been forever.

I’m not the person I was then

but still, I would have wished

to have hung on

a little longer.

It costs you nothing

to take that jump of faith

and tell a little white lie,

to foretell a future

you don't own.

Author's Note

I'm in with the in crowd. I go where the in crowd goes.

Reviews

[softlyfall]

She gave you 90 points...what the heck are points and where can you spend them?

[softlyfall]

I was banned by the in crowd.
I read S2L3 as I was travelling Light, and that is splendid.
For a man of words, not to say love right out loud seems um...stupid.
Funny how all roads to stupidland are paved with love

[zunie frost]

wow !!!! so good i love this work !!!!
great poetry !!!
90 points from me !!!!!