for Kevin
I look into your eyes
and I can see me.
I speak to your heart
and I can hear mine.
Each day I spend with you,
and I learn more of you
I fall in love a little more.
You have set me free.
For so long, I've been locked in a cage
with someone else as my captor.
He held the key, and he would choose
how much of me I could be.
Finally, a changing of the guard
and now you hold the key.
But you chose differently.
You opened the gate and handed me the key.
Now I am free. Now I can be anything.
Now I am yours.
-KJR
Spreadsheets, numbers, columns, rows
How long will I be stuck in this petulant prison?
Going blind, keep skipping, going crazy.
Back to the beginning again and again.
Screaming vulgar curses in my mind.
So as to not disturb the false serenity
Of this isolated, silent
Compound.
-KJR