In the Silences

There is no pain we would so endure alone:
O, wounded soul,
open your heart where you will find me.
Let your wound be my wound

for I have carried death already in my body.
Close your eyes and feel me close
in this darkness: I am here
just as you are, softly and warmly,

loving your sorrow as my own. Brace me here
next to your chest, where your breath
is my breath.
Through tears and through death,

we’ll carry through, together.
Out of this dark
something brilliant is about to arrive.
And for sure, my love, it will outlive us.

// 16 Apr 2021