Searching for the Words (revised)

This is a revised edition of a poem I wrote back in the day, I am working on a new poem as well as some fiction and nonfiction: It is time to get back into it. You can view the original poem, the differences are not great but I feel the change in spacing adds to the affect of the piece here http://danielperrucci.blogspot.com/2011/10/searching-for-words.html

I can’t find the words to say.

I search the books on my shelf,

but the all those words seem cliché.

I look deep inside myself,

yet the words still elude me.

I turn on the television,

the silence knocks me down like a tsunami.

I don’t want to use the usual jargon,

I want to tell you how I feel in a way,

that has never been heard.

I want to avoid the usual wordplay.

The only thing that has been conjured,

is a phrase used more than a tribal tattoo;

that phrase: I love you.