
Every girl should have a poem
or a song,
to know she’s touched a heart so deep
She dances through my words,
spinning sideways into phrases that aren’t even hers as I sleep
I can’t leave her behind.
I look everywhere and find her eyes.
I change the color of hair, scent, style,
She still finds a way in.
Slimming between paragraphs
she telegraphs
a twitch of a lip
or a finger slip down my page.
In time
I may forget her,
regret her
but for now
I let her
write herself through me
Because,
Every girl should have a poem.