Charity Janisse

If I ever needed to know anything worth knowing

Tonight would be that night

If I wanted to remember what your voice sounds like …

Would you whisper down the line?

Into my ear

Would you make intentions clear?

Would you tell me

I’m

Not crazy

For wanting you

Even after each passed by year?

Would you touch my Sure skin real

Would you contemplate

And then perhaps

Communicate

What you feel?
Or am I still

So fucking clueless

Goddamn useless

Made of madness

You’re my moon

My lake

My sadness.

And I’m ok

With what I say

In these lines

That make pain

Go and stay
I smile quietly

Because safety is in

The warm peace

I feel

My Trembling chest

When I steal

A moment

To think

Of a smile

That got away

(One desert day.)
And I’m here

Are you?
And I’m back
And it’s ok
Perhaps I never

Went
Away.
Charity