I know, as you do
Mere words fade
Words mean nothing
And yet, with words,
My world fills,
Jumps, lilts and sways
Words unmake me
Pile up, tumble, drench
And come crashing down
As our worlds crashed
one night into dreams
arranged word by word
Telescope nights, full-lip signatures
Open skies, hoary rhythms
Eyes burning words into my soul
Words ripped this heart out
Scarred, bloodied, tore once
And again in repeat plays
No words worked as balm
On tiny punctures that hid
As stars do at dawn
And yet, with words
My daily sun is brighter
The greys deeper
I seek not even in the silence
of your life-affirming touch,
An absence of word
And no matter how ephemeral
the warmth of ocean's womb,
I will wait for eternity to arrive
With her wordsmiths into this nook
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