More from the crates! I forgot how much great stuff is in here: from 2004!
What was once ignored
Can no longer be…
The joy that I have found
So richly in you has
Perplexed my spirit and
Possessed my soul.
Thoughts of you appear
As dreamlike visions that
Sustain and haunt…
Forcing the true nature
Of this affection and hunger
To be made manifest.
To lie broken and exposed,
Naked in your presence…
This seducing suffering is
Comforting, reminding me
That I have loved this way
Before, but not since.
Powers beyond my finite
Scope of reasoning, draw
Me to you…as quickly as
I can pull away from them.
This resistance ignites my
Blood and liberates my
Heart…to be yours once more
(Jennifer-Phylon Bush, age 22)
**Written on division 9400 of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, during the month of April, year of our lord, 2004
