FORGOTTEN WORDS

The words from my heart are gone 
the moment after the stuttering valves 
utter them, passing through the dark 
humid warmth rising between us. 

They are like rain 
soaked into the earth, 
the clouds' speech bound 
to the dark memory of soil. 

What did I say, that you 
hold me with the grip of clay 
on water, pressed to the particles 
of your skin? 

What did I say, that you 
will not give me up 
to the pull of the dark gravity 
settling in around me?



© 2004 by Richard W. Todd

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