without a single word
your clear brown eyes
reach out across this distance
and cut me to the bone
and lay my falsehoods bare
in ways bittersweet and blue
which leaves my spirit empty
and hungry
to hold some truth.
i doubt if you remember
such a slivered slice
of space or time and i wonder
what you’re doing
and how your life has been
in the silent traces of an hour
filled with recollections
bold and blue
as my thoughts melt into you.
