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I have not words for you I have not words for youto say when we meet, to color my longing, remember the brush of your nearness We have not words for you cannot bear recollection of turbulent train, trace the stars raining scars in the darkness Our words birth distortion -- scratch wounds on the page, become artifacts, tombs for our heart- sickness lost in the turbulent wake drawing lines in sand of our souls Yet birth them we must in a Requiem raucous to honor this Passing among us -- our thoughts dare to compass the shades of our consciousness We know all we know in our blindness -- in musty calm catching our breath in the empty where lately the Word lay entombed Bo Gordy-Stith |