Uranium

I absolutely meant 

Every single word I said. 

When it was growing dark 

And the sea of stars 

Rolled onward 

Into the vast open nothing

That you so loved�"

You were so in love 

And not with me 

But the glittering prisms 

All around us. 

I meant every word 

That I said

In the total silence. 

In the heavy

Quiet 

Between you and I. 

My eyes bore 

Into the distant core 

Of some lonely star 

That I couldn't care less about. 

I told you everything

I confessed to you 

Like you were something holy 

And I�" 

Someone trying

Hard, shattering glass 

Inside my throat 

But still telling you the truth.

The words were thick 

Just honey in the air

Dripping from 

My lips

Invisibly, irrevocably.

I meant all the love 

I sent your way

In baskets down the river. 

I meant it 

I meant it 

I meant it.