Us Two Poets

Us Two Poets

By Claudia Wysocky

I stand before you now. . .

  We are two poets. . .

    Will you let me be?

    Will you accept my world as it is?

    I've only just wished for a second chance. . .

  Everything I want for myself. . .

  I've been too scared to dream. . .

  —My world has been too tame.

    I will open my eyes and feel you here. . .

    —I will learn to love what I see.

I can no longer see

 'cept in your mirror.

You're my darkness and my light

    —and I don't mind.

Your hands are cold—your voice is tempered steel

    —But these things I don't mind.

I can no longer feel

 'cept in your arms,

You are my life and my death

    —as I slowly die,

I will believe in what you see.

 So speak words into the earth…

   With the light of a kiss between us.