Impossibilities

By Samantha Diaz, Age 17

Inspired by the November '08 Poetry Workshop, "Between Sustenance and Hunger"

I would rather be in love with impossibilities
the soft touch of twisted claws and teeth on skin
your purple vines have never ceased their hold upon my heart

I wish to descend through mirrors and rabbit holes
and fall into the Wonderland of your embrace, so many miles away
I would rather be in love with impossibilities

and forget the suicidal voice-mails that plague my cell phone
the venom left to make my organs fail
your purple vines have never ceased their hold upon my heart

Smooth skin flawed by cartographic scars
the violet ink that embraces your arm in a way I envy
I would rather be in love with impossibilities

Please seal my mouth off with a kiss
that won’t suck the blood out of my arteries like a full collapse
those purple vines have never ceased their hold upon my heart

As much as I tried to fall in love
with boys that don’t change under the full moon’s light
I would rather be in love with impossibilities
your purple vines have never ceased their hold upon my heart

NOTE: Sami’s villanelle first sprung forth during the Girls Write Now poetry workshop. Inspired by one of her repeating lines, Lynda [her mentor] decided to try her hand at poetry, which she’d always shied away from. Sami’s “impossibilities” are somewhat fantastical, while Lynda stayed closer to home—literally. But it was Sami’s creative spirit that inspired both!

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