self portrait #19 : identity
to love a woman who is
a woman in every sense but
who acts like a man to
the woman who wants to
love the woman in her in every sense
but, i am not a man and
i know this and she knows this
she may play the part of
the shy deviant boy but
i am every hopelessly helpless boy
that i have ever dated, hat in hands
reciting sonnets under balconies,
selling proposals without diamonds
i know this and she knows this
the truth is that,
at the end of the day i am
too complicated, too imaginative,
too introverted, too frustrated
she is too sweet, too kind,
too
to bring out the lover
she knows is inside me
i know is inside of her
JANEisnotplain 10.08
