COULD LOVE

I think I could love you

and quickly.

I thought you could fulfill my emptiness

enter me in ways I haven't let anyone in HOURS.

I think I could love you freshly, with vigor

and an appetite renewed

after all this fallow empty time.

I think I could love you

immediately.

I don't know if you could do the same

but I wish you'd try

wish you'd see

if there is a thing in me to offer you redemption

satisfaction

culmination.

Maybe you could love me

just as quickly

and then, perhaps,

you'd tell me your name.