My Love: Poem of the week

Art by http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com

My Love

my love is undisciplined
unruly
tangled
she is always hungry
my love wants sweet and savory
baklava and stuffed grape leaves
mango smoothies and avocado sushi
carrot cake and butternut soup
my love does contact dance with strangers
she discusses auschwitz with men in galleries
and thinks she was once anne frank
my love is clairvoyant
she can read past lives the way she reads books
haphazard, invasive and devouring
my love sometimes wishes she were a lesbian
but she is unrelentingly heterosexual
my love loves babies
pink cake boxes
penises
sheer sequined covered tunics
shoes
(currently she is on a dogged internet search
for pink satin platform)
my love's nickname is l.a
she is extravagant
guiless
with no knowledge of spells or withcraft
if my love had her own body
she would look more like angelina jolie
than me
i can't blame her for feeling cheated
by the body she's stuck in
my love wants to change the world
she thinks she has so much to give
not realizing how much she takes from others
my love is loyal until she senses rejection of any kind
then she flies like a birdbut has less memory
of where she came from
i would like to protect you from my love
she is the creator and the destroyer
she wants so much from you
she would kneel at your feet and clutch at your heart
that's the way she does things
but i am her slave
no longer
i will witness
the way you tilt your head
undulate your shoulders back
cradle me
hold me upsidedown
whisper love lyrics into my ear
carry my pink purse
not recall it all
run away
call me anorexic
tell me your ex-girlfriend was the love of your life
that you will never love anyone that way again
and my love and i will simply watch and wait
until we discover
who you really are


-Francesca Lia Block