Can I write you a poem? I’m not much of a poet- I’m not Shakespeare or Sheeran or Donne or Morrison or Yeats or Miles or Wordsworth or Wilde or Swift or Sondheim or Browning or anyone like that; but can I write a poem
for you?
because, honestly?
To me
you
are
Betelguese.
I do.
So…
Can I write you a poem?
For you.
I want the sun to burn
the moon,
to sing until humanity
understands Betelguese
the way we do.
Maybe then they’d understand you,
the way you deserve…
for you,
for everyone,
but mostly you make me
want
to write a poem.
Jennifer deBie