i love

i love me the way i love trees
& vines & weeds & wildflowers
i know i love you cuz i hate you so much
& we treat the world & each other with such hate
i love everything that way

the way i love
hills & mountains
buttes & canyons
& miles long views, smoggy or clear
i love everyone that way

deserts & forests & open lands
stretching to the horizons
lizards & deer & little
rodenty critters of a 1,000 types
i love everyone that way

big bue endless sky
with a fierce sun burning
or clouds in all their forms draped
sheets of rain visible alongside rainbows
yes, everyone, that way

i love the world
the way i love the universe
the little nooks & crannies we can imagine
stars & nebula & black holes & big bangs
so far beyond our grasp, beyond us

i love us, our joined selves
our cooperation, our fascination
the way we love together
make the future forever
i love you, i love me, we are god

i love me the way i love you
& i love you the way i love me
& i love the globe beyond teevee
& i love a planet of fussin’ & feudin’
& lovin’ & breedin’ & needin’ all the way

copyright 2007 by Kia Gabrielle McLean