Speak
The world leaves me momentarily where I can
find you
among the words on paper.
Filling me with a whisper
and a chill.
It doesn’t matter that you are not
here.
You exist in my mind or perhaps
my soul
and it is just
enough to move me closer
to me and to you
and all the others who
have been here before us, lingering
in the afterglow of glorious poetry.
In those phrases this tangible place fades
away, and with it,
a new world is born.
Speak to me.
