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To Kiss Worn Hands, To Love In a Storm

This Is What I Should Have Told You

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To Kiss Worn Hands, To Love In a Storm
Anastasia Owen

This is what I should have told you


That I saw my soul twitch across your eyes

That I felt forever in an evening

How you taught me ‘gain to love blue sunrise

I lapped at rain rivers you placed before me

A giving sunset, living warmth

No longer pondered my feet as they ran in my sleep

But held so deeply in night’s wondrous storm


This is how I might have spoke once


Had I grown a body quite like thyme

One that grows as it should, you know

Leaves whispering from time to time

How he might have seen us in a different water

How they may have heard me, good and bad

Told us we might have been saved daughters

Had we felt burnt pages like he had


But I’ll say with you I dream to see it


Hear our eyes and taste our minds

See emotion in color all over

Live in unending loving rhymes

Turn to self and say we love her

Feel her sound in vibrating skin

Learn the flowers are ripe for planting

The skins we pick at to come again


This is how my strength, I will grasp it


The angels' song, in color, to see

At the sounds of moans that eat our thoughts

At the smell of shrieks that teethe one to sleep

As I think too deep in rivers drought so drawn

How my hands will weep at the sight of we

I will love my hands, so taut and so wan

When we becomes no longer me


This is how I want to feel it


The city kisses in our skin so thin

I want to give you a thousand flowers

Never to remember the tins they came in

I want to grow with you a field of flowers

Sleeping softly in your skin

I want to say hello a thousand tomorrows

And weep with smiles as we kiss where we've been


But this is what I will have told you


I’ll lose my eyes in yours across a moor

For there in refuge they’re held in kin

And they’re singing across unclosed doors

A blessing to hold your hands, your thorns, thick and thin

I will have said I love you and more

I’ll love you in all those thorns we’ve had in our skin

And demand them we break for nothing more

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