Poem

Suki ni natte, mou ii desu ka?

by Joseph Paolo Dacop

August 2, 2022

World, cruel yet sustaining, too much venom in my remedy

Oaths, satisfyingly suffocating bird cage, a beautiful tragedy

Utopia, beyond all things, I saw a glimpse of you and me

Love, painful drug, tricky misery, rained light on this vast sea

Doorbell rings, gently calling, voices resonated, I scream inside

Youth tainted, curiosity reimagined, I find myself to decide

Old flowers rehydrated, hope blooms once more to coincide

Untangled silk and strands align, space between defied

Moon, maiden, muse, cursed, destined, whatever you are

I am Icarus, you‘re my wings, I fall endlessly because of your fire

Norse and Greek deities, may the sun shine on us from afar

Doors of sanctuary, cast judgment, and present my greatest desire

Inertia unbalanced, I race with my momentum, I run to you

Falling onto the bottomless pit with beating veins of red and blue

Imprison me forever, my axis, my satellite, my universe starts with u

Foundations and laws of our fictional reality, unbreakable, us two

Art, meant a hundred thousand words, perfect, all I could say

Left with a memory to mourn, a past to regret, led me astray

Longing for a hand to hold, a diamond to treasure, a reason to stay

Inch by inch, I’m getting closer, you make my dawn and my day

Needless to say, bird of paradise, you’re my favorite flower

Let me be your home, your storm, your shelter, your thunder

Or be my soundtrack, my playlist, my encore, my summer

Verses, refrains, instrumentals, let us be the bridge for each other

Even if the stars start falling, even if the waves stop crashing

With you, you, and you, and a three thousand more, I’d be living

Ink splattered, the most beautiful moment in life still recording

Thanks, for the long, long, long strip of timeline we’d be making

Her tear is the wonder I want to answer, no letters, no digits

You are her, the endgame of my words, deeds, and all the little bits

Oceans in Saturn’s iridescent rings, ever violent, face all defeats

U will always be the cause of my twenty-three million heartbeats