Making you

                    Feel beautiful for me.
I need to put the only smiles
On your face.

Laugh for me, laugh. No,
Just smile
               And feel
Beautiful. If I touch you,
Will you; if I
Slide my fingertips across your hand,
Will you feel beautiful?¹

I feel worthless when I can’t
                                             Make you;
When I can’t bend your neck back
With one slow caress underneath your long hair;
When I can’t pull you into me
With one soft, reassuring lookgestureword;
When I can’t (make you)
                                         Feel beautiful.

And I must do it
Againandagain
Until you get it right
                                  (for me).
Feel beautiful.

¹"Touch Me Fall" by the Indigo Girls. "touch me/ i'm so beautiful/ rub your hands across my head just like this"

7/17/98 4:30 am