Soto Voce

Soto Voce

I want
to lift
my voice
for you.
Jeweled words
to soften
the ragged
edges of
your pain.

Arias sung,
flooding your
weary spirit
with peace
and thoughts
of me;
Let fly
from the
well of
my wishful
bardic heart.

A melody
freely sung;
Lips offered;
Sacrament before
your soul,
so you'll
remember all
we share.
Chords of
our love
harmonically matched
to voice
our one
set in
stone certainty.

That no
matter what
time does
to prove
this love
a lie,
we are
still One;
Anam Cara;
Spirit bound.

How can
this barren
lifeless page
mock me;
Make me
doubt the
very truths
that keep
me sane?

After all
this time
silence reigns;

While I
sit here
holding my
breath under
a star
tossed sky
with a
love song
stuck in
my throat.