Tangent on Love

[belkar]

On blank canvas one point passed
by a circle along a straight path.
And a circle could wish with all his might
that a tangent could stick around despite
all of the tenants of logic and math,
that defines what who he was on his graph,
but that does not change the fact,
he was but a circle.
So he watched her crash.

And so he thought, what if he'd put up more of a fight,
maybe if he'd spun just right,
he could curve a line as it moves mid-flight.
Be like a planet, so he thought.
Stop the dot as it comes in hot.

It takes great strength to quit
on someone you would rather commit.

People say they are proud of me.
I would be too, if I was you,
but me is me and you is you, and
no one knows half the power of one over two,
with a leather coat and a doctors vote, a late night phone call and suicide note.

I hate the thought
that all I've wrought
was a picture; after all I've fought.

For you I sacrificed everything.
And you tossed me aside like a petty thing.
I could not stop where you were going.
But I gave you my heart so you didn’t have to go alone.