i have loved you
for millennia
lives entangled
hands clasped
traversing
every rocky path
through
fields of tall grasses
silvering in wind
and forests
veined with light
'cross oceans
and seas
over rivers
that still whisper
all of our names
from cave
to burrow
to hollow cove
y o u
not always you
and still
i knew
the shape of you
the current of you
the pull of you
my soul's home
i love you
i love you
i love you
with every fiber
of every being
i have been
and every being
i am to come
through the threads
of every century
you are sewn
into my story
knit into the deepest
chambers
of my heart
of my cells
of my knowing
i have painted you
on sacred walls
written you
into tattered pages
ink
feather
charcoal
etched you
into stone
into the lines of my skin
of my marrow
through every pelt
every scale
every vessel
we have worn
i have recalled you
always
in the taste of
your tears
your sweat
your laughter
your light
the electric hymns
sung behind your eyes
i have loved you
through feast
through famine
through addiction
through freedom
past flesh
past blood
past bone
deconstructed down to
the smallest unseen
where particles gather
calling you
into being
where atoms lean in
drawn by ancient law
as tides pull to moon
i have loved you there
i love you now
and i will love you
through every
iteration
you break into
again
again
again
About the Creator
Kristen Balyeat
Words fly to me on the wind, bump me as I'm strolling the city, splash me in the face while I rest by the river, and shake me awake in the middle of the night—I’m humbly one of the vessels they use to come to life.
Also, i love you:)
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