By: Jehangir Saleh
Written: November 10, 2005

I have trouble writing poetry about you as you are
It was easy when I could imagine who you are
And write poetry about your perfect ankles
But I don’t want to write about how you cheek bones force themselves
To smile when you see me
I don’t want to write about guilt and how I feel that I should
Forget about you
But how my words and heart cannot

How do I write about us?
The creepy silence between our words where you can also hear the mechanics of our minds making assumptions – all totally unfounded – about one another.

These poems I write are badly written and yet that forms seems appropiate in describing who we are together. We have never learned how to give each other a chance.