Jens Nicholas Jebsen- A Poem

Song For A Divorce

You used to take my breath away,

With your eyes like little green fires;

But now and again when you look my way

I see two funeral pyres

 

You used to make my blood run hot,

When you walked into a room;

But now your touch feels like a plot

To facilitate my doom

I used to show up in your dreams, 

Wearing nothing but my skin;

But now I appear in your harebrained schemes

As you plot to do me in

If I could do it all again,

I'm not so sure I would;

But you'll always be my perfect ten

I'll miss you more than I should.

 

 

 

Jens Nicholas Jebsen lives in Los Angeles. His work explores dissidence, mental illness, prescription drug use, and the gnarly things that go down in L.A public high schools.