You Have Lost
You have lost
the music in your eyes.
You have lost
the color in your walk.
You have lost
the flash in your talk.
Though you have improved your knowledge in
the many ways required by your new life
it is what you have forgotten that sacrifices me.
I want to send a tornado through you.
I want to switch you on like a radio, to hear the news.
I want you to melt me in the heat of your kitchen.
But I stand outside in the dining room,
wondering if dinner will come.