Tell Them I Love Them

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