Let's not talk tonight

Let's not talk tonight, 

let our hearts bleed! 

Let's eagerly await 

that late night thing, 

when the phone goes ding, 

and the screen lights up, 

and even half asleep, 

tired to the bone, 

you wouldn't miss it for the world .. 

yet let's not reach out to ask how the other is, 

how the day went, 

what happened at the dentist's, 

just know it did, 

another day, 

of learning how to live with it, 

let our hearts bleed! 

Suffer, know what it is to wait, 

endlessly, 

as if we were never meant to be! 

as if we aren't! 

Suffer, know what it is to bear 

in silence, 

invisible to the day, 

inaudible to the night, 

Suffer as if suffering 

were itself the prize, 

the liberty to choose to suffer for love. 

Let the pain dwell! 

Pain dwells on the wings of time, you say, 

let it dwell then 

on the wings of the night tonight, 

let our hearts bleed, 

know what it is to love, 

let's not talk tonight! 

September the 8th, 2023