Written by m ennenbach

surely would

the bible says man gave a rib to make woman

i’d give another rib to have you here, in front of me, to just whisper my eternal love to you

i would use my tears to moisten the clay beneath me so i could sculpt an effigy of you to show my devotion

but my hands are clumsy, my ribs are weak and my heart is shattered into a thousand glimmering stars to watch down upon you from the empty sky

but if i could i most certainly would

if i were a poet i would write an ode that would make the world sigh, the sun flicker and the tides escape the pull of the moon

if i were an artist i would sketch my dreams onto the blank canvas of reality and pull you fully formed from the aether

if i were a singer i would serenade the gems from the earth below and fasten them into a necklace to fasten around your perfect throat

but i’m none of these things, nothing to you, a grand total sum of zero in the mathematical equations that hide behind the scenes and manipulate physics

but if i could

if dream were reality, if fiction were truth, if tears were sustenance

i surely would

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