Monday, December 3, 2012
Asking too much
"I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me
about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through. Tell me
what the word “home” means to you and tell me in a way that I’ll know
your mothers name just by the way you describe your bed room when you
were 8. See, I wanna know the first time you felt the weight of hate and
if that day still trembles beneath your bones. Do you prefer to play in
puddles of rain or bounce in the bellies of snow? And if you were to
build a snowman, would you rip two branches from a tree to build your
snowman arms? Or would you leave the snowman armless for the sake of
being harmless to the tree? And if you would, would you notice how that
tree weeps for you because your snowman has no arms to hug you every
time you kiss him on the cheek? Do you kiss your friends on the cheek?
Do you sleep beside them when they’re sad, even if it makes your lover
mad? Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion or just the timid
motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? See, I wanna
know what you think of your first name. And if you often lie awake at
night and imagine your mothers joy when she spoke it for the very first
time. I want you to tell me all the ways you’ve been unkind. Tell me all
the ways you’ve been cruel."
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