If I knew
then what I know now
on that very
first day
I wouldn’t
have waited to make you mine.
I wouldn’t
have wasted a second of our life together.
I would have
told you that the days were made for us to share.
If I knew
then what I know now
I would have
pressed my lips to your skin
even though then I could not say
that every -
everything was only for you.
What good
are words
if the cost
is forfeit kisses?
If I knew
then what I know now
I would have
taken you in my arms
and held you
like a mother’s goodbye.
I would have
pressed my body to yours
until we
could not tell
where one begins
and the
other ends.
I would have
lived my life in tangled sheets -
never left
to eat or drink.
And when you
were asleep
I would have
matched my breath to yours,
my
nourishment,
my
imperative,
my cure.
If I knew
then what I know now
I would have
stopped the ticking clock
whose every
tick and tock
conspired
with its ceaseless hands
tearing us
apart.
If only I knew
then
what I know
now.
Absolutely beautiful, Tom. <3
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