Love Poem: Slip of Tongue

Slip of Tongue

I keep secrets 
like other old people 
always do 

In my brown eyes, they borne 
the stirs and sighs of all the things 
I was entrusted, yet today…

this great excitement I felt 
betrays my eyes, revealing 
the discrepancies of my shadow

as I tried to snatch the trust 
of a bird, playing “love me or love me not”  
‘neath the healing mango tree