Love Song out of Nothing by Vassar Miller
I know I’ve probably said this before, but if you haven’t read Vassar Miller’s If I Had Wheels or Love, you’re missing out!
Love Song out of Nothing
By Vassar Miller
You, being less than either dew or frost
Which sun can melt, are deader than the dead
Who once at least had life. You never fled
Because you never came, were never lost
From me since never held; you cannot boast
Of having been a whole, so leave no shred,
No footprint on the ground you did not tread.
For where no flesh has been there is no ghost.
Mirage upon the desert of my mind
Are you to me who walked alone before
You formed from crooked heat waves of my thought.
For when I mourn the want of you, I find
I only mourn a part of me, no more,
Who, minus you, am nothing but a nought.
