What is this we say
Words have power?
To send them out as little soldiers
Do we?
Dressed in armor plus tiny swords
Or in humility, altogether naked
Regardless revealing our hearts
When with any thought
Words can heal?
To speak them forth as mighty ministers
Ought I?
What bidding do I demand of them
Or in vulnerability, lowly ask
No matter what I stand to lose
I cried, how dare I!
I cried over cat food today
How it covered
Her nose and eyelashes
My hands and my vision
How it lingered
The way snowflakes might stay
Were we not dark princesses
Standing at the sink twice today
Cleaning her face and my heart
Hoping that tears and time
Will somehow free us
From the stench
From the mess and disaster
Of our love
You
As your I and My
Fly
Blindly, effortlessly, convicted
From your lips
Rewrite truth
Erase me
You
Us, we set our jaws
Our chins, one dimpled, one not
Defiantly thrust
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Next, we decree it
A battle-call for Love’s sake
Blessed endeavor
We’ll sit together, child
Should God give us time
To ask the Eastern light,
“Where have you been all these hours?”
To watch the Western sky
Blush on its behalf
We’ll struggle no more, child
Please God, give us time
With the why of why not
About the words we can’t use
‘less they begin and end
With the loveliest shade of love
“I Love You,” conceived
In the approaching twilight
Of the longest day
Nearly all I beheld seemed as an exhibit
You looked like proof to my skeptic’s eye
The evidence for hope
The verdict guilty of love
Do you daydream of Coffee
When it is night
Too late in the night
Imprudently so?
Do you long for Daylight
For earlier Light
That Caffeine’s first kiss come soon
I do
I’ll wonder to infinity
Were angels tending to me
As I learned to tell time
All the minutes of it
Goodbye
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