Like a lover, passionate and familiar;
I will fill you.
Like I have so many others before you.
You give me butterflies.
I think about you
when I’m not holding you open
between my hands.
I miss you
when I’m not caught between
these soft pages
And the rough tip of my pencil.
Are all of you my asylums?
Forming crazy words and ramblings
On tens of thousands of blank pages.
I think I’m held captive in these lines.
My entire life scrawled and thrown down
In graphite and ink blots
For people to decipher.

