let me be lonely

Dear you.

forgive my audacity.
let me sink into you first.

do you not hear me?
are you so numb that
you lost count of
how many of my hands
i want you to hold.

let me take your voice away.
let me take your power away
and turn them into bad dreams.

just let me go
if you think we don't think well
we don't love well

laugh until the dark well leaps up to you.
you don't know i have left you.
for no one knows
and no one will know.
how my dark water breathes.

forgive my audacity, now.
i'm too tired.
let me sleep.