WHISPERS IN THE DARK


I see you striding through my night
passing by me...a shadow on the moon.
I watch you wander the emptiness~
so alone in your detachment,
Lost in the darkness of your thoughts.

Why do you slice through my night
only to fade like a distant storm?
Never lingering, never touching~
never laughing, never loving?
A restless wind in search of a calm.

I whisper your name in the darkness
and you appear by my side~
I hold out my hand to you
but you melt back into the shadows
Afraid to touch, afraid to love.

Again, I whisper for you in the darkness
once more you come to me.
But now, I hold my heart out to you~
you pause. . . I lay it in your gentle hands,
Together now we know, we are safe, we are one.

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