2.02 vs 2.07
“If I’m with you, I lose her.” - “You’re going to lose her anyway.”
Even as I hold you
I think of you as someone gone
far, far away. Your eyes the color
of pennies in a bowl of dark honey
bringing sweet light to someone else
your black hair slipping through my fingers
is the flash of your head going
around a corner
your smile, breaking before me,
the flippant last turn
of a revolving door,
emptying you out, changed,
away from me.
Even as I hold you
I am letting go.—Alice Walker, “Even As I Hold You”
(Source: thedisorderly, via warpfactornope)
