Poems Don't Have to Rhyme

What Mad Nijinsky Wrote

I want to tell you that I love you

Though the words won't come in an easy way

I want to tell you that I want you

I would like for you to stay

I want to learn your language

because you are your language

Your accent is familiar to me

now that we know each other better

But until I can speak in your mother tongue

I cannot tell you what I must tell you

And that is that I love you.

I was going to teach you

You asked me to teach you

I told you you would never be great

I did not mean that you should stop

I did not want you to stop

You misunderstood

I didn't mean you would never be good

Let me teach you

Let me be good to you.

I wish you no harm

Though you are death and I am life

I wish for you to be happy

Though you and I are not alike.

I will marry you

I cannot marry you

Your family will not let us be wed

My family will say that I am dead

to them

If we are to be wed

I must convert to your religion

because you are your religion.

I wish I could give you children

I wish I could give you the things you dream of

I wish I could grant you sons and daughters

I wish we could be mother and father

I want to be what you want of me

What I am not I will try to be.