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Letter after letter I imposed on your heart my will to love Affection became sentences I still serve Periodless Upon the evening table of supper And the morning counter of tea Where loneliness impales me more Each moment with you. Letter after letter You will begin to understand paragraphs Of my history Collapsing during my sentence Into words of grief. The envelope is a prison for each meaning Of each word you read. To let them stay there Without proceedings from your heart Is the genesis of tears. Letter after letter Promise upon promise piles And your immobility Convinces me you speak another language Or cannot read What so plain your heart has placed before your eyes And though illiterate Shall my love not be spelt the same Abandonment of self For you whose history is abandoning promise And breaking bonds Where an envelope is sealed. Letter after letter You will come one day with nothing to day There will be no cable for the bills are unpaid There will be television or radio For the same reason You will see sunlight for a season And sit under a tree You will open my letters to page upon page of your heart And you will cipher words And then meaning of memory - Memory will be important for reading is discovery And letter after letter Your tears will flow for time And then for a second of your sigh You shall know me by my love for you.
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