Breaking

To break your silence with a spoon

To cut your voice with my words

To touch your flame with my tongue

Is to break you.

Say a word and time will fall,

Disappear.

Translate my gestures

In a broken language

Or build a shelter, and

Be my home

And I will make you.

Let the fire withdraw

Like waves from your eyes

Beyond this empty shore

The tides rise and fall, like

Words lost inside words.

Let me gather all your scattered shells

And I will take you.