Etz Av & Love Poem by Adam Berman

I started to love you the other day
your smile fell on me like a rainbow
so much that when it became dark I lit in its colours
I bought a plant and a dozen of hearts
I watered your eyes and the plant
I loved other things too, but not the way I loved you

I saved a chair for you the other day
I stood by your chair for days
and when it became dark I slept on the floor by its side
I still watered my dreams
and my plant
when the music stopped
Someone sat on your chair

I saw children waving kites the other day
I too wanted to fly a kite
so I decided to take my letters
and make a kite from them
I thought god would read them
or at least have a look
But my love for you was too heavy
that it never took off

I past the shore the other day
I wondered if I cried enough
I could make a sea for you
and you could pick a shell
and maybe listen
and I calmed the waves of your
hair and shone across it
You numbered down to grains of sand
but I watered them with my tears
and built a castle

I saved a year for you the other day
I stood by it for days
and when it became dark I became invisible
I still watered my dreams
and my plant
when the year had ended
something happened

Your smile that once fell like a rainbow
broke
your eyes that once lit like broken clouds do
stormed
and my love that had kicked your belly
for 9 months
fell out of your womb
and laid
next to a tree