and then (2012)

i wrote this in a fog

two thoughts escaped

i open my arms

show you my orphanage

of swollen and starved hearts

i know they can find a home

in your love

a house of broken colored glass

sanity in my stained words

prescribe another distraction

while it gets good enough to smile

written in this fog

to say "i love you"

my shadow follows

tracing the fog

i wait