If I could bottle
the entire universe
to show you the magnitude
of your touch’s impact
on everything that breathes
when it lands on me,
perhaps you will understand
how the colors
in the visible spectrum
came to be,
and how
those still unseen
somehow appear
in humanly wavelengths
when you smile.
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Who could name them
but the angels
who witness their nature;
how they collide and form
new hues
yet unknown
each time a sigh
escapes your breath?
And how the warmth
from your body
creates life
in dying soils.
They told me the name
by which they call you,
known to no other.
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But the universe
and all the colors—seen
and unseen
in the physical spectrum
would not suffice
to show you how your presence
creates the ripples
of love
undulating in the tiniest
quarks…How necessary,
how urgent
your heartbeats are
to hold the world
as we know it
together.
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If I Could Bottle the Entire Universe
September 28, 2023
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