Veronica's Origins

I have not seen you
But you have honey brown eyes
Because he said he loved you.
You have an oval face
Because he said he held it
As he wiped your tears away.
Your lips are frozen crescent,
Colourless and unhappy
Because he said you were another man's wife.
Your nails are long and shapely
Because the scars you gave him
Are the only treasures he has of your love.

Veronica,
You approximant tap nasal plosive-
He breathes in every time your name resounds
In his head and in his heart and in his lovers' eyes.
He sees in them and he sees in me- you.

He walked down the aisle
Of the library with one
Because he hoped
That her brain had your beauty.

And another-
He let the other pat him on the head
Hoping that your motherly love
Ran in her veins.

He looked in my eyes
And said "At last!"
Hoping for your dreams
To shine through them.

What devastation in his heart, Veronica!
He fell.
Now he wanders
With his orphaned love,
Foolishness is
The only other child
You had with him.
For both their sake
He seeks refuge in
She and she and she.
And then one day
He came to me.

I saw him and I loved.
I made a home for myself
In the heart
Of Your homeless man.
And then my love was orphaned,
And I was not you,
And I fell
Full pregnant.
Foolishness is the only child
I had with him.

For how long now I have wandered
From him to him to him.

I walked down the aisle
Of a library with one
Hoping to find his beauty
In his brain.

I patted the head of another
Hoping he'll take
The motherly love in my veins.

But no matter
Who looked in my eyes,
My only dream was him.

Veronica-
You are my theory
And his reality
Behind our big Bang.
Veronica, your Origins-
Our universe
Is governed
By Entropy.

And in knowing this I sigh
From the depth
Of the Language
Of the soul
Rattling within-
His name
Affricate tap nasal approximantly.