What’s in a Word

It’s not that I want

to touch all people

with my words

But

If I can touch people

with the words i write,

Sometimes

I imagine

what my smile can do…

to unlock someone’s

best self

And yet

In reality

I only want to

touch one person

and even then

to unlock

her soul

So we can make love

each and every day

For she is my world

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I write my poetry

from the inside my soul

So I see echos of her

inside the words

Just as close

as my very breath

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I want to enter her soul

through my words

I want that each footstep I take

from my soul to hers

be mirrored

as she reads my soul

and each footstep

that she takes

burnishes the words

with joy