To My Friends:
How can I find the words
to tell you what you mean to me?
The emotions that stream from my heart
fill my brain and cloud my thoughts.
And if I found the means to release them,
words and tears would flow together
From the sheer bulk of love for you
that is brimming within me.
How can I sit in my room
arguing with myself forever?
My lips reroute the words to my hands,
and the tears fall silently to my pillow.
Miscommunication or insecurity?
One causes the words to disappear from the screen...
And the tears dry unnoticed
As the love continues to grow,
...And I drown in the bottle of my emotions.
~September 11, 1999