Delusion of Love

I find my love as random notes

In unread books of every library

I peruse them

Page by page

Line by line

To decipher your coded letter to me

I find a smile hidden in distant poems

Written by unknown hands

I read them

Verse by verse

Rhyme by rhyme

To dwell on the edges of your lips

I find glasses shattered in a child’s story

Written in a dark-cornered home

I listen to her

Word by word

Syllable by syllable

To inscribe it on my bleeding heart

I find smoked dreams in my mother’s eyes

Crawling out of her sleepless nightmares

She carries them

Night by night

Dawn by dawn

To leave a tear on my dilapidated shoulders

I find your absence as a stone in my heart

Melting away into my blood

Grain by grain

Vein by vein

To carve your face on the back of my eyes