Attention!

Attention!

This is a threat!

Don't make me fall in love

with my independence again!

Because I'll do it!

Madly, crazily, head over heels, 

dangerously in love.

Obsessively, compulsively, 

I will eat it, sleep it, breath it, stalk it.

Don't leave us alone in the same room...

because I can't be trusted with it.

I can't make you promises I can't keep.

This is what you don't know! 

I'm good with it. I'm very good.

Because it's the only thing 

that always reminds me

I exist here, too.

I'm a human.

I scar. I itch. I choke. I bleed.

When the sky shifts, when the earth rumbles, 

when I begin to shake,

this is what I'm left with

This on again off again relationship - no -

torrid love affair.

And I can't promise I'll ever leave her...

2003