Love and Variations Quotes

“Like This"

If I were in love with you
I’d flit from room to room, like this.
I’d stare into the mirror, baffled,
to search out what you see.
My thoughts would go missing,
like this, would be found drawn
like iron filings to the magnet
that is the fact of you;
and all the weight of old loss
would surface like a wreck
to haunt me, making my skin
crawl with fear, like this.
I’d hallucinate you everywhere
—every letter, phone call, knock,
like this, from you, from you!
If I were in love with you
I’d write a poem, as truthful
as I could; tear it up. Not like this.”
― Carole Satyamurti, Love and Variations