Heavenly Creatures

for Juliet and Pauline


Don't let her leave.
Don't make her leave.
I love her.
She is my life and without her
I am nothing.

If I was ten years older, 
She was ten years older,
We were not both young women
With a madness in our blood -
You would not call this unhealthy.
You would not call this unwholesome.
You would not call this obsessive.
You would call this true love.


January 27, 1995
© Lela Kaunitz