What do you know of love?

How impossible are the things you ask of me.

Ask for the moon, I say, or the stoic, boring sun

Let me write your name in blood, I offer,

A wild flourish on this vast, ever-changing sky.

Let me pledge my first-born to you, and make you

An unwitting Rumpelstiltskin.  Let me tattoo our love

On every wall, door and window of my vision.

Ask me for an arm, an eye; any organ that you don’t already own

Ask for my flowers, my words and my thoughts

Demand that I lay them out as a carpet for you to tread on.

Amuse yourself as you throw me a challenge

Pepper it with a kiss, as I tell you I’d do anything for you

Ask me to part waves, ask me to be abhorrent.

I place these offerings, scented with incense and sincerity

For you to pick and choose, so I may prove my love

Even though you’ve never asked.

How much more can I offer, I ask, as you reject

Hyperbole, and laugh, albeit lovingly, at the drunkenness of
My soul. What more can I give you?

None of this is enough, you say; Or did you say too much?
Pretty words are just that. Instead, you say,
Give me your understanding, give me a world without you.

How impossible these things that you ask of me

How small, how devastating.