Chelsea Wall's Poem

I want to be a lost poem in a stranger’s coat pocket

That conveys the importance of you

To assure you of my desire

To assure you of my dreams

I want all the possibilities of you in writing

I want to give you your reflection

I want your eyes on me

I want to travel to the lightness with you and stay there

And I want everything before you to follow us and can trail behind me

I want to never say goodbye to you.

Even on the street corner or the phone

I want…

I want so much I’m breathless

I wanna put my power into a poem to burn a hole in your pocket, so I can sew it

I want my words to scream through you

I want the poem not to mean that much

I want to contradict myself by accident and for you to know what I mean

I want you to be distant and for me to feel you close

I want endless days when it’s day and night time never to end when it’s night

I want all the seasons in one day

I want the sun to set up before us and come up in front of us.

I want to water up to our waists and I want to be drenched by rain up to our ankles with holes in our shoes

I want to think your thoughts because they are mine

I want only what is urgent with you

I want to get in the way of the barriers and I want you to be a tough guy when you’re suppose to be like you are already

And I want you to be tender

Ant I wanna say we met for a reason

And I want that reason to be important

And I want it to be bigger than us, I want it to take over us

I want to forget, I want to remember us

And I want your smile always and your grimaces too.

I want your scars on my lips

I want your disappointments in my heart

I want your strength in my soul

And I want your soul in my eyes

I want to believe everything you say and I do

And I want you tell me what’s best when I don’t know

And when you’re lost I want to find you

When you’re weary I want to give you steeples, cathedral thoughts, and coliseum dream

I want to drag you from the darkness and kneel with you exhausted with the blinding light blaring on us…

And…

-Capri