Published: 24 August 2020
Last updated: 11 June 2024
Recently I made a decision, I'm just going to love you - WATCH MIRIAM’S POETRY READING
EMERGING
Recently I made a decision
I’m just going to love you
I’m going to love you and love you more
Outwards
With arms stretched
A thousand olive branches
Picked
Never to be needed
I’m going to hold in words like air
Let them breathe out through every other crevice
But my mouth
These lips that know how to arrange beautiful words
But so too ugly
This mouth
That has uttered golden lines
Spawn from heart shaped boxes
But so too the gutter
I will refrain
I will hold
In slow motion
Any inkling of fire
Reel it back in swiftly, quietly
You will not know my bitterness
And I will only meet it momentarily
A quick hello
A nod in remembrance
We will soon become strangers
This bitterness and I
Past the threshold of familiar
Of comfort
Of thoughtless repetition
Knee jerk reaction
And this mouth
This throat
This heart
Humbled by time
Buoyed by this mortal coil
Will just love you
Video by Miriam Hechtman
