Union<\/p>\n
You are not here.
\nIn this moment all that exists is here.
\nBut you are not.
\nThere are so many footprints
\nleading to my door.
\nLet us enter, they say.
\nWe cannot sleep in the desert it is too cold.
\nOur tears will dry too fast.
\nOur ears will hurt from the silence.
\nLet us in.
\nAnd so I gather them all up,
\nswing wide my door,
\nand step aside as they enter
\nhoping they will lay in peace beside my fire.<\/p>\n
You were not among them.
\nI looked everywhere for your face
\nand saw only mimicry.
\nThe blind eye buried behind brain
\nsearching for your heart.
\nAn antenna so alert
\nthere is a peculiar nearness of you
\nflying inside my body.
\nI can hold this like a tiny bird in my hands;
\nfragile, vulnerable, waiting
\nfor my move to decide its fate.<\/p>\n
You are not here.
\nI wish I could reach your skin,
\nremove the camouflage
\ntearing it away like black paper
\nheld before the sun as a shield.
\nUnbundle you from your other lives
\nand distill you in my now.
\nYou are my last love,
\nmy final embrace of this world
\nand all the others that drop their prints at my door
\nare dimmed by your approaching steps.<\/p>\n
I can see you will be here soon.
\nThere is victory in my heart
\nand something invisible yet massive wants to speak.
\nReminding me of you and your coming.
\nQuick, I plead, give me your lips.
\nGive me your womanly tenderness
\nthat understands everything
\nso I may lose myself in you and forget my loss.<\/p>\n
If you were here, I would tell you this secret.
\nBut you would need to be staring up at the stars
\nwhen I told you, held within my arms
\nfeeling the earth rise up beneath you like a holy bed.
\nYou would need our union to be your ears.<\/p>\n
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