You tell me your love hurts
and I can only say words I heard my mother say.
Between creased eyes and shy hands
you’ve bitten your tongue so hard the wounds open and bleed.
You’re scared of
the train-rides home alone.
You made him a spotify playlist
he won’t listen to.
He says he
tolerates you.
You’ve seen love in old faces wrinkled with every laugh line.
You can remember tracing them with the hands that now trace his chiseled abs.
I want to tell you that our sons and daughters won’t hurt each other.
That you are someone no-on needs to conquer. No trophy. No diamond.
You are a true human woman.
and I can only say words I heard my mother say.
Between creased eyes and shy hands
you’ve bitten your tongue so hard the wounds open and bleed.
You’re scared of
the train-rides home alone.
You made him a spotify playlist
he won’t listen to.
He says he
tolerates you.
You’ve seen love in old faces wrinkled with every laugh line.
You can remember tracing them with the hands that now trace his chiseled abs.
I want to tell you that our sons and daughters won’t hurt each other.
That you are someone no-on needs to conquer. No trophy. No diamond.
You are a true human woman.