EVERY WORD

My heart ached at the sound of your name

Yet I spoke of it repeatedly in my head

It’s not as if I needed you or anything like that

But I couldn’t bury the words you once said

 

Every word still gathered carefully inside of me

Every word there to comfort my soul

Every word pleasing the very center of my heart

Every word ambitious towards my own goals

 

As I read on constantly over and over again

My heart ached at the sound of your name

My soul broke at the sound of your voice

Yet I listened to every word and song all the same

 

Every word nourishing my very existence

Every word always reminding me of the past

Every word never parallel to the next

Every word endured and will forever last

 

My heart ached at the sound of your name

Nothing more painful, nothing more soothing

My world built with your perseverance

Was neither a burn nor a console but everything

Amina Bhimla © 2005Copyrights