A Word

He Wrote the word with Earnest Care,

Chisseling out Letters in a Tender Embrace,

Nervous Fingers balked at the task,

To engrave the unsaid, All In a Single word.

Unformed Unfathomable Words, That

Weighed Too Heavy for lips to Utter,

Words which pulled the Lips to a Kiss, Words

Which only two love-lorn lips would procreate.

Jailed in her Jolts, Unable to Escape an Express,

Aspiring to let them fly free, he fluttered

Sensuous Strokes that would tell a Tale Of

How a Thousand words wouldn't bear that which,

Only a Lone Word, would out-weigh, and Paint in

Myriad Hues with his Delving pulse A Picture,

All Captured in a word, in a name, in her name.

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nanda