Only to Hear You

Your words break the silence

They even break the darkness…

You echo in my entire being as I exist only to listen

To listen to your melody, travel through the emptiness and reverberate back to me…

To listen to the sound of that one deep breathe I take to calm my racing heart…

To listen to you gasp and pause between the words you speak…

Yet indeed, not to listen to the words themselves, for the words don’t matter

I close my eyes, and the words don't matter…

I let you in my mind, I feel you in my mind, and the words don't matter…

I hear you say them,

I hear them in a feathered whisper,

I hear them as clearly as I hear my own heart pound,

But the words still don’t matter

Nothing matters,

Everything fades,

And the only truth is your voice,

Your voice falling into my ears