I don't need you
to share your life with me
I need you
to be a part of it
as you grew on me
like a third arm
like a third lung to breathe with
or a third eye
third hemishpere in my head
third ventricle of my heart
You came into being
secretly but impellingly
as an organ within me
I never knew
how does it feel
to have a spleen
or where is it situated in me
but I know exactly
what is missing you like
and where does it hurt
right there in the chest
under my fifth rib
left of my solar plexus
and deep inside the brain
at the bottom of my eyes
so I need to close them
to ease the ache
sometimes it's in the palm
of my right hand
when I sqeese my fingers
into a fist at nights
but it doesn't feel right
Never say you'd give a life
for me though you never would
it's like having my feet paralysed
saying to me we'd run
'til the end of the world for you
These kinds of things
I don't need
a world to be seized
nor a life to be given
or shared like lovers do
I carry them inside
as I do with you in me.
