#recognizingthevoiceless

all that is left of you is tethered to a tremor.

your absence widens, and keeps on widening until we are finally separate.

the gulf between us is a star-fed river.

the gulf between us is a light-starved chasm.

I watch you convulse, collapse into yourself.

you, a soft nebulous shadow that grows warm and bright, incandescent, from a seed.

so quiet. so very quiet.

you spin away in the vacuum of space. pulse light. scintillate morse code answers.

i hear the silence.

i hear everything you want to say.

Embraced by a soul that knows your light and your deepest darkness.

Reveling in the acceptance of a heart so strong and large,

It can contain your unmeasured own,

Offered with such grace and generosity of spirit,

That you finally feel you've come home.

e.v.e.

A comrade writes:

"L’shana tova to Claudia Sheinbaum and no one else.

If I'm right,

it was all worth it

to have loved you

so much.

If I'm wrong,

it was all worth it

to have loved you

so much.

(I'm sorry,

I'm so

You keep

apart

from the world,

freed

of the need

to be