Meeting in The Dark

The emphysema of night presses into our lungs
and I walk towards you like a thought I should not keep
no glow - only the purple bruise of air between us 
your silence is jagged, honed as a blade 
somehow, this view left me ... dismantled, piece by unseen piece
fear feels domestic here, like folded linen in a locked room
I dissolve before I can speak out loud
and still, I step closer because trust is the only light we are allowed
and when we finally reach for one another, it is not sight that holds us -
but the quiet certainty that neither of us will let go
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May 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"it is not sight that holds us - but the quiet certainty that neither of us will let go"....I love the poem and these lines....welcome to Poetry Soup Victoria
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