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Featherweight Heavy

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Featherweight Heavy


this is how you witness love unfold
and bloom into something bigger
than rafflesia. something bigger
than the whispers
that stay huddled underneath bed sheets
stained with teenage curiosity.

bigger than the edges of coffee mugs
that hold affection
at the bottom of the cup like sugar
with your morning lover.

bigger than the sticky kisses
of his baby girl pecking her daddy’s cheek
for the first time.

it’s the love of two kindred spirits
that hover miles upon miles away
but are interconnected through
some magical, mystical,
undeniable link.
whether it is through
a similar rhythm in pulsation
or akin ink that stains our fingertips.

love unfolds and blooms
when the rain is a thunderstorm
and it stands tall in the eye,
even if it stares down the petals.

i have come to hold in my hands
that we all fall.
even empires, even kings, queens.
even a wisdom of a god.
new civilizations born under
the weight of featherweight heavy.
death is light but ends are anvils.

the silence ends and that’s when
screams sound loudest
when pleas(e) fall on deaf ears,
but i promise you
my featherweight heavy wonder human
i’m not deaf to your orison
even if you doubt yourself like you doubt that concept.

this is how we witness truth flourish,
when we face ourselves in the bud of morning,
dew settling themselves on your soles,
that we’ll live till morrow.
and we’ll wake our marrow
to do it again, to witness aurora.
and when your cartilage creaks and sings
under the featherweight heavy of living,
we’ll survive another day.

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