Love Can Wait

love can wait you stood there lips aflame eyes avenging cursing him in front of strangers, how reason leaves so easily when love becomes stingy. if I had reached out to touch you over your anger over your broken heart had I wrapped you in my arms a total stranger would you have allowed me to shower love the way you showered me with hate? oh heart so broken blood flows and will not clot breath moves in stops and starts we glare into each others’ eyes strangers intimate in anger branded together at hell’s gate with T-shirts that read “resentment is here, love can wait” 1993