If you could read my mind
would you say yes?

If I tipped the barista at the bar
would you know my character?

If I opened the button of my collar
would your eyes brighten in a smile?

If I spoke my body in word
would you melt with my eloquence?

If I took an ice chip into my mouth
would your pulse race to meet my breath?

If I swept away the broken glass
would you lean into my holding arm?

If I swept my lips with a feather stumbled on
would your kiss be delivered with its flight?

If I If I hummed a love-song in my memory
would you remember our first dance?

If I brought you a cannoli dusted white
would you share with me a bite?

If I cast a shadow upon the light
would yours entwine with mine there?

If I bent my heart upon a knee
would your sweeping branches take me?

If I closed my eyes on this moment
would you join me in a dream?

If I crossed a coffee house floor
stood in front of a chair
put a hand soft upon its back
would you look up at me?

If you could read my mind
would you say yes?

∞

Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).
Today’s prompt:  write a poem that emphasizes the power of “if,” of the woulds and coulds and shoulds of the world.

30 Poems in 30 Days

All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck