For Your Soul Poem by Robert Rorabeck

I ask you about your family all of the time
A-,
Because I have none of my own, and because that
I would die for yours:
I never met anyone as beautiful as you are throughout all
Of my high school:
I have spent all of my time singing to lesser girls,
And today you gave me a better present than all of the angels,
Because I got to see all of the clothes you wear:
I got to taste you like a water fountain of butterflies:
Your skin so brown and beautiful:
There has never been another woman like you, A-, and there
Never will be:
After we made love you wanted to sleep, and then you wanted
Jalapenos on our pizza for lunch, but your bad man rang,
And you had to go home:
You gave me so much today that you had before promised me
That I could never have,
But now I want your name, and all of the time for your amusement:
A-,
I have this house: it is yours: I want to live with you forever:
I want our two bodies to be mutual shores;
I want my everlasting songs to be about you, A-, while all of the
Pinpricks of the night burn,
I want to love your children, and I want to learn how to
Be a better man for you,
A-, because it is for your amber soul that my soul burns:
It is for your soul, Alma, that my soul will always, always,
Burn….