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Bell Inocencio

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

18 poems·Since November 2016

Having an affair with a man named Literature

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this: to you, my fair lady

November 10, 2016

this: to you, my fair lady

i am old and pale and wrinkled
my soul creeps to weary and 
century-old. i am old and pale
and . . . dying . . . and dying.
i am old, and she is old.
we both live like ancient ghosts
and we're both dying.

this: to you, my fair lady.

we grew old. we'll grow older
and we grew with love and
we'll grow with love. we grew 
and we'll to die. we lived. we love.
the souls that bond the syntax
of time . . . yet, we lived for love.
we'll live to love and die.

this: to you, my fair lady.

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