Powerful

on another day,

I would love you more

but we’re so busy

and all I want

is to be powerful

in your mind

I want to be enormous

and I want you

to say to yourself

what a life worth living

what a love worth taking

but we’re so proud
and reluctant to admit
how vulnerable we are
how scared of stepping out
of our houses
of our routine days
on another day
I would touch you softly
I would whisper
all the words connected
to everything you are
on another day
you might know the answers
to my prying questions
but today we’re hiding
in the details of our duties
and the complexity
of the things above us
make us smaller than we really are

and our fears smother

all the things we long for

all the beauties

that exist inside us

on another day

I would believe

a little bit stronger

and you would speak

a little bit louder

and we will be

all together bigger

in all the lines

drawing out our images

will merge twisted

on another day

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