We never uttered the words,
It wasn’t about the way we spoke,
Or the things we said
I was captive to the magic and majesty
Of the silence we held
It spoke of love, peace, and belonging.
I still long to the space
between the words
Where we would embrace
the feelings, the pains unspoken but heard
The pause to reflect :
This is what being human is all about,
Speaking the truth
Even when in doubt
Revealing the weakness,
The darkness, the ugly side
The imperfections become tamed
A little smaller,
not as loud
As the silence.
I am no longer looking
for love in words
Glyphs and phonetics,
A lousy translation.
Language does to silence
What a prism does to sunlight
Looks like magic,
Almost feels like it’s more
As if multiplied
It is but love in fragments,
And some of us are Colorblind!
Only silence holds it all
As we sit side by side
Heartbeats and breaths in harmony
The brief moments of quite
Becoming the symphony
As we come to understand
Or at least try to..
Something happened
Feeling in love with each other
And the whole of humankind.