to be in the room
with your body
to say tehillim
dusk to dawn
voices caress
bereft flesh
to be in the room
between rest
to dream melodies
melancholy and sacred
spilling syllables pure
as white sheets
to be in the room
and know my use
to intone the holy
for your peace
not knowing you
any more than me
to be in the room,
more than us
to affirm true
words true
supreme silence
between my breaths
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to be in the room,
enduring guard
to invoke farewell,
to escort you
homebound refrain,
heart alight, aloft
to be in the room,
your last room
to love you wholly,
your last love
in holy tremors
you leave us
and I leave you.
Image by Avital Pinnick.
