A Love Sentence ____ AKSHR

A Love Sentence

 

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Without breath, without truth,

like silence, like night

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

indeed, between the shadow and the soul.

 

Without joy, without peace,

like hunger, like want

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

indeed between the shadow and the soul.

Without honorifics or prayers,

without thinking even of tomorrow—or yesterday.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

indeed, between the shadow and the soul.

 

Without words, without knowing,

without speech or language,

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

indeed between the shadow and the soul.

Without sight, without hearing

—yet with these senses I love you.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

indeed between the shadow and the soul.

____ AKSHR