Books to read: on the list!
The laundry can wait. So can the dishes.
Our emails and mobile phones too.
We could sit naked by the window
if we dared, or we could catch the news.
I could watch you struggle not to doze
off during the sports announcements.
There will be plenty of time for sleep.
Since you asked, the plants are watered.
The light has stopped flickering, since
I replaced the bulb. Who knows, the dishes
might clean themselves after we are gone.
How about if we add an extra hour
to our day, so we may fill it with sighs?
There will be plenty of time for sleep.
For now, let us settle into the dimness
of evening, our talk like the passing
of a melody from one instrument
to another. Are you worried about how
early you would have to go to work
tomorrow? Take a breath. Look at me.
There will be plenty of time for sleep.
―Cyril Wong, Titling our plates to catch the light
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
“reservation, n
There are times when I worry that I’ve already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.”
(credits to BooksActually Facebook Page)
Labels: booksactually, Fiction, literature, poems
Saturday, June 9, 2012 @ 4:01 AM / 0 daisies