Thursday, 16 February 2017

Words

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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