30 Poems in 30 Days: Love (21/30)
21 June 2007
Love
by Daniel R Stout
My tears leave black stains
on the carpet.
My blood mixes with the tears
making a painting
in magenta
on the floor.
My mind is not
perfectly logical.
Emotion pours through
the delta waves
of my meditation
on death.
Emotion corrupts
everything it touches.
“What is this?” she asks.
“What of it?” I say.
I’m caught between
these polarities,
searching for logic
but finding the beat
of my heart
everywhere I turn.
She’s thinking surreal thoughts
as she looks below.
Where is this blood
coming from? I wonder.
It is this heart that bleeds
for a time
when emotion fell away
and the crisp spin of logic
whirled about my head.
“I can’t,” I say.
“Can’t what?”
I look at the ground and
spelled out in blood
and tears
is a word:
Love.
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