to fall, pierced, for this whisper

to fall

this treacherous and beautiful desert

this very universe

suddenly surrounding me, filling me

with desire only to know you

to become two drops of water

falling together into one

but clinging still in fear

not knowing when or if to fall

for two un-mingled still smiling droplets,

for all that desire would demand,

surpass the nothing

of falling alone

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pierced

again, pierced by the random

beauty and sadness of this moment

my soul, that essential self beyond

words or feelings or shaped thought,

reached with its own hands

for your ineffable presence

for the fleshless touch

to share

to be

(the bittersweet melancholy, the simple delight,

these soon to be lost raw emotions)

with

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for this whisper

for this, this merest whisper

walls I will build (wanting none)

and towers and guards to hold

the rampaging, lion like roaring

in my chest, my heart, my whole mind

aching to soar boundaryless

I will guard, I will build, I will bury

only for this whisper

by don norman