9.19.2020

mine as you ever were

Surely you stay my certain own, you stay 
My you. All honest, lofty as a cloud. 
Surely I could come now and find you high, 
As mine as you ever were; should not be awed. 
Surely your word would pop as insolent 
As always: “Why, of course I love you, dear.” 
Your gaze, surely, ungauzed as I could want. 
Your touches, that never were careful, what they were. 
Surely--But I am very off from that. 
From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow. 
 That was my clean naiveté and my faith. 
This morning men deliver wounds and death. 
They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. 
And I doubt all. You. Or a violet. 

[Gwendolyn Brooks {1917-2000} 'love note I: Surely', from Selected Poems 1999]

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