Why I am Silent

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    Why I am Silent

    I love you most when you cannot hear me-

    when I am separated from you

    by that chasm of speech

    over which

    it somehow seems both impossible and unnecessary

    to build a bridge.

    I love you fully, freely, finding

    within myself the capacity to love you

    without the seeming need to desperately,

    compulsively confirm the truth of it to myself, merely to feel

    as though I have some proof that

    I am, and you are.

    　

    I love you strongly, fierce as I

    Hold you silent in my arms, softly shaping myself to you. And yet—

    when you roughly grab my face to kiss me, hard-

    heated—

    my love for you is hushed-

    Translucent and exquisite as the brush

    of a petal against your cheek,

    Flushed

    And beautiful beside mine.

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    The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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