I’m not. That’s how I began.
Two words with which a simple misunderstanding could change all.
“I am.” But I pause and I wait.
Your heart should skip. “Not.”
Did it? Shh. Listen.
Two simple words with which a world arose.
I’m not. That’s how I began.
But I am, you say. I am everything.
I am you. I am your hope. I am your suicide.
For “I am”. Two simple words to bring life to a flame.
And how horrid
To actually “be”
That one soul who would seem so small
That could feel an eternity at your glance
That you would say “please be”
Because of those words I utter.
“But shh, I’m not.”
Two simple words could summon a war
I’m not. And that’s how I began.
And those fickle glass cases surrounding your soul
That form circles upon your pale, pale face
Would close for a momentary century in pain
For “I am”. But I’m not.
And how mellifluous
Those words as they trip
From the tongue of a man so ill with the world
So hopeful of death that he should say “you are”
And not ever explain.
But shh, I’m not.
That’s how it began.
Oh, those two simple words be it to your dismay
Your pity, your fortune, that I should not linger
About on your lips and play at that cage, the lock, I won’t slip.
I am, but I’m not and I don’t take away pain
I don’t take it away but add to each day
And you love it, you adore it, you’re foolish but so wise
Because you’re human and you are and you cannot deny
Those emotions
You love them
I am, and I’m not.
Those emotions
Those two words
Are nothing
When one.
And how beautiful
To whisper that word
That would seem of such insignificance
That one sweet word consisting of you
That captures an emotion of color and fragrance
Of the most profound combination.
Of love and love only
I told you, I’m not.
But I never explained the significance of those words
Those two tiny words
I’m not one to stray away from the meaning
Of that one simple word
That four letter word.
Oh how lovely to love
And to be loved and in love
Oh how lovely that word
One word of more importance
That I said I’d never be.
But shh, I’m not.
At least, that’s how I began.
