a.mend.ment

 





beneath a cool autumn moon

he spoke in tones
so gentle

spider silk and faded rose petals

even the difficult words
fell like down from his lips

as if to speak them louder
would diminish their sincerity

i smiled softly for him
with open palms

so he would know i had caught them all



this man bending before me

had held my faith
so surely

once upon a tear soaked lifetime ago
 
he chose to uncurl his fingers
one by one

until we drifted
into a lost fairytale of nevermore

i forgot to breathe for an eternity
in its wake

when i did
my heart beat achingly slower

tucking the shallow sound away for rainy days



like september leaves settling before sunset

i kept my fingers
steady with every memory

listened
with past emotions torn open wide

because i could not offer him any less

too many years
breathing out all the would haves

knowing that we bit our tongues
and veiled our scars

whenever we dared tread too close to yesterday



when he finally stopped his eyes swept my fingers

closing them slowly over his confessions

as our frayed ending
smoothed and knit

putting his now salved hands into his pockets

we stood two souls
shivering in the cold

more from the honesty between us

than from any change of season