yellow paper

once
many years ago
in a state of
drunken
rapture

I wrote
a seven page
rambling letter
telling of my undying love
for you
confessing it on
crushed yellow
legal pad
indicting myself
with my signature

you had the kindness
not to mention it
until we
were dating awhile
out of typical
delicacy
and guessing
I was too
embarrassed
to bring it up
funny thing was
somehow
through the haze of booze
i remembered
not just penning it
but each word
as if it were
on a plaque
before me
and
perhaps
strangest of all
i meant
every goddamn
word