I Wanted to Give You Something

I wanted to give you something


I want to give you something
that makes a show:
fireworks, words better
than Paris or Beijing.
I want to do a magic trick
and pull that perfect thing
yet uncreated out of the air
and give you its
first moment of existence,
that instant where
infinity comes together
in infinite promise and
infinite possibility.
I want to give you that
first perfect thing
that everything after
will remind you of
and make you smile,
will make you say wow
because you know
how I wanted to give you something
that makes a show.


~XineAnn