Tell them I love them
In small words
Soft as dust
On a windowsill at dawn
Tell them I love them
In the way the sky
Keeps opening
Even after the storm
Tell them I love them
When the road bends
When the night is loud
When the heart is a locked room
And no one knows the key
Tell them I love them
Because the world forgets
Too quickly
And people break
Too quietly
And sometimes the only bridge
Is a sentence whispered
Into the dark
Tell them I love them
Not later
Not someday
But now
While the breath is warm
And the hands are still reaching
Tell them I love them
Because I do
And because love
Is the one message
That should never arrive
Too late