+ reverie

your face is so unreal

when i see you

i have trouble believing

you exist anywhere else

except my mind

and you

you drive me insane

believing that i'm worth

anything

and i think

i think i love you for it

yet i cannot fathom

dealing with this intensity

of thought and emotion

-but-

embracing your standards

of paradox and irrationality

i realize

i cannot live without

the very intensity

you deliver

so faithfully.

+ c. davis

+ october 1998