"The Black Eyed"

[scribbleomania]

But I didn't say--
"You are the most precious thing in the world to me.
The fact that you exist makes the earth spin on its axis,
it's rolling for joy because you are here.
The sun shows up to see you,
and the moon chases the sun off to be in your sky
and none of them love you like I do, brother.
Not even close.

There is no goal, no political means,
worth wrenching your life from mine."

-Betty Shamieh