the water needs to be changed

you told me

to be the best me

so i could get the best

of you

so i got to the top

triumphant and full

but you were not there

any longer

no one was

*

she’s slumped in my bed

lumpy and limping

from a night that hasn’t

happened yet but will

when we are

what we are

which is

nothing more

than nothing

and more

*

a tulip shows

all there is to show

of love

for the earth

and for this reason

we pull it out

with earth dangling in bits

of little worlds lost

showing

how little we understand

of love