I want to show you
how wrong and right,
light and dark you are
then you will see that
I too am hard and soft
simple and complex
living and dying
then we can love and hate
give and take from each other
and spend our lives hiding
and seeking
holding on and letting go of
what we have found and
will surely lose
today or tomorrow
depending on
how naughty or nice
you are
my everything
until you are
nothing at all
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Ivan Jenson’s Absolut Jenson painting was featured in Art News, Art in America, and Interview magazine. His art has sold at Christie’s, New York. His poems have appeared in Word Riot, Zygote in my Coffee, Camroc Press Review, Haggard and Halo,Poetry Super Highway, Mad Swirl, Underground Voices Magazine, Blazevox, and many other magazines, online and in print. Jenson is also a Contributing Editor for Commonline magazine. Ivan Jenson's debut novel Dead Artist is available as a paperback and on Amazon Kindle and Nook. His new novel a psychological thriller entitled Seeing Soriah is now available as an eBook or in Paperback on Amazon.
