I Want You to Know, Part I

I want you to know
you can always call;
that I still love you across
all these years;
that I want to send you
Nikki Giovanni love poems and
the ballads of Leonard Cohen.

I want you to know
I want you.

I want to hold your hand
as we listen to Gregorian chants and
say not a word.

I want to lie in bed not moving,
breath in breath,

to walk arm in arm down a
tree-lined street in Milwaukee.

I want you to know I still believe
in us.