Dream-Drunk Love

You’ve lived through loss—
you’ve battled unuttered shame—
yet you hold onto Love like it is more 
than a Delusion—it is Honor—precious 
and rainbow-like—shimmery and 
shadowy all in one. 

You speak to her with Soul, 
truths that seem simple—
truths that survive in warm hands,
in melodies, 
in cadences, 
in overtones, 
in steady Voice.

You are creased at the edges
like a letter read too many times,
but your words—
your words are both 
soft lanterns and sunlight—
lit from somewhere deeper than breath.

Some people are put here
to hold others when they cry,
to remind them that they are still real—
still seen, still envisioned, still worth
writhing, weaving weights of 
Dream-drunk Love. 





3.3.25
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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Date: 3/13/2025 9:22:00 PM
Laura, there are some very fine and giving people in this world that we end up having fondness for. I hope you are well and experiencing the kind of intimacy you write about. That’s all I can say for now. It’s late and I have to deal with diversions! Take care and keep smiling inside.
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Laura Breidenthal
Date: 3/16/2025 1:57:00 AM
This poem was written for a stranger which is ironic isn’t it? But the connection— the intimacy is within, and all around. I hope you’re doing okay, you’re in my thoughts! <3 Laura
Date: 3/13/2025 6:56:00 PM
The Awareness of Love is alive in your testimony in this poem Laura. "soft lanterns and sunlight, lit from somewhere deeper than breath..." very gentle Poetess...J.A.B.
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Laura Breidenthal
Date: 3/16/2025 1:55:00 AM
You’ve touched on my most tender moment in the piece, Justin—you never fail to warm my heart with your words, with your light. <3 Laura
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