Poems for Her

Quite Enough

I'd want you to know me
someday
even if the odds might be
against us

I'd want you to see me
the way i see you as my
fascinating star—
as a beautiful moonlight

I'd want you to realize
that among the poems
that i have written
you're the subject that lasts

I'd want you to stare at me
not now but maybe someday
as if i am the most privileged
person in the vast universe

I'd want you to love me back
but you don't have to—
for i was thinking that
an admiration will always do.

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1, April 2021