Name spelled wrong on every love letter you wrote me
I didn’t bother to correct you
as if my name didn’t matter
God, let me fall in love again
but not like before
Let me fall in love like the wind
free and flowing not afraid of its potential for destruction
You did not know my inner world
never bothered to ask
I never bothered to tell, as if my inner world didn’t matter
Yet we jumped into the ocean, hand in hand
You did not even know my name
Unbeknownst to us the ocean was only a pool
Our heads hit the bottom and we dreamed in our comas that this shallow grave would leave us buried forever in each others love
But I woke up without you
and now I am afraid of cliffs
of wind and of clasped hands
of love letters
of being known
of deceptively deep waters
of not feeling the ground beneath me
of declarations of love