Blue Valentine

there is a world-

across the street,

down the hall,

perhaps

even

hidden behind 

the curtain of your eyelids-

where I have never 

stopped loving you

my darling:

where you have never

stopped loving me.

Addicted

 Psychologists have proven:

you can be addicted to a person. 

(Did I say “you”? I meant me.)

The withdrawal has passed,

I have long since stopped my shaking,

but like every alcoholic knows,

I am only one day away from relapse. 

The taste of you on my lips cannot be

forever postponed.

It is inevitable, this craving,

I do not expect to ever be free of it.