With a sky full of stars,
be silent like the sky itself,
and sit beside me—
cloaked in solitary beauty,
washed in the diamond glow
of clustered planets.
Two minds, alone, wordless,
sitting side by side—
only the fountain of heartbeats,
the rise and fall of lungs,breath sounds
and nothing else between us.
Leaving me, passing beyond me,
my soul, my being, my existence
will become your sky—
holding you in its shelter.
Even then,
that same silence
will surround us,
like a cloud.
If you come,
if you love—
then love me like death:
in whose silence
every path of return
has been swept away.
The word within wordlessness—
I know it.
You understand it too.
Shallow bodies, shallow minds,
the clamour of expression—
they have never been able
to bind me,
not even across
seven lifetimes.