C O R N E R

And I want to play hide-and-seek 
but I won't hide myself from you

and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and wash your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at a café where you are familiar with and talk about the day and read your letters again and again and take away your unhappiness and give you some music I love and read the books you like and I am unable to stop the lovely poem-like long chat with you and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and be angry about the politics and take pictures of you when you’re sleeping and get up to fetch you coffee and bagels and go to the Starbucks which you spent all your youth there and drink coffee again at midnight and tell you about the tv programme I saw the night before and laugh at your jokes although they are terrible and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much I love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your breasts your arse your 

and sit on the steps waiting till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps waiting till you come home and worry you’re late and be amazed when you’re early and spread the perfume which makes you fall for me and go to dance whole night till you feel sleepy and pad the long road back home and look at you and wish I’d known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin and get scared when you’re angry and your eye has gone red and the other eye blue and be sorry when I’m wrong and happy when you forgive me and your hair extremely short and your face oriental and tell you you’re gorgeous and hug you when you’re anxious and hold you when you hurt and want you when I smell you and whimper when I’m next to you and whimper when I’m not and dribble on your breast and share your dream in the night and get cold when you take the blanket and hot when you don’t need and melt when you smile and dissolve when you laugh and not understand why you think I’m rejecting you when I’m not rejecting you and wonder how you could think I’d ever reject you and wonder who you are but accept you anyway 

and tell you about the story of little prince and being your tame fox and write poems for you and wonder why you believe all of me even though I don’t believe myself at all and have a feeling so deep I can’t find words for it and want to buy you a kitten I’d get jealous of because it would get more attention than me and keep you in bed when you have to go and cry like a baby when you finally do and get rid of the fake strong-minded me and want you give me a present but say nothing to you and accept anything which you could do and want what you wand and think I’m losing myself but know I’m safe with you and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me because you don’t deserve any less and answer your questions when I’d rather not and tell you the truth when I really don’t want to and try to be honest because I know you prefer it and grab your embrace before you throw me out of your life and try to get closer to you because it’s beautiful learning to know you and well worth the effort and speak English to you badly and Spanish to you worse and then realize there is no language in the world I can use to express my feeling about you and make love with you at three in the morning 

and 

somehow somehow somehow communicate some of the overwhelming undying overpowering unconditional all-encompassing heart-enriching mind-expanding on-going never-ending love I have for you