Mouthful of Forevers

After being introduced to alot of awesome (and surprisingly still alive :P) poets like Tyler Knott, Lang Leav, Michael Faudet, Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, I found another one to add on my list. and her name is Clementine (oh, I just love her name. It always reminds me of this hauntingly beautiful song) von Radics. It just so happened that I accidentally stumbled across her book while browsing through the shelves of a bookstore and I got intrigued by the title so I looked her up and voila! I saw the poem wherein the book got its title from. Looks like I just found the first item on my Christmas Wishlist. ;)

Mouthful of Forevers

by Clementine von Radics

I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouthful of forevers. We
have both known loss like the sharp edges
of a knife. We have both lived with lips
more scar tissue than skin. Our love came
unannounced in the middle of the night.
Our love came when we’d given up
on asking love to come. I think
that has to be part
of its miracle.

This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms
will bandage and we will press promises
between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
of your nose. I will write a dictionary
of all the words I have used trying
to describe the way it feels to have finally,
finally found you.

And I will not be afraid
of your scars.

I know sometimes
it’s still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it’s the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.