The Blood & The Bones

you don’t say much, you never do

and here I am, words flowing from me like air

all the things that lift me up

and bring me crashing down

and I want to tell you

I want to scream it to you

or whisper to you while my lips graze your ear

but I cannot

for fear and distance

and somehow not knowing exactly how to say

the things that eat away at me

but also give me life

they keep me from filling this space between us

with the words of a thousand poems

and the tears of all the heartbreaks I’ve ever felt

in the middle of us, stretched out along the miles

the words that I cannot find a way to give you

but the one thing I know for sure

at the beginning and the end

all there ever is, all there ever was

is I love you

LL