A new part of speech

A new part of speech

Writing these lines, I step aside

Imprint her face, her body in a chair

To listen in an audience of one

Knowing that it is my task

To find the sum

Of syllables and syntax

To write love to send in an impact

Of her opening and reconsidering

Passing the moment

Where I let her love slip

Through my hands

Because I did not kindle

The sinew of my strength

Into a muscle like a

Map through a maze

To find each grain of sand

On a beach and carry them

Inside a memory I create

To the mountain in her mind

A journey I invent

To earn the passage of her time

In my presence like a gift

A passing of her lips

Into a part of speech

That I was blessed to meet

Fathom and ponder

In a season to wonder

Inside the mirror of  thoughts

That she could speak and my heart could park

The lines of her yearnings to find their place

In a part of me that has never learned the taste

Of love asking for me, like a lost canine

Wandering these streets, I have found home

In a new part of speech