i relish in your silence, in your quiet moments, your doubts and fears manifest, those times between thoughts and words

when you just exist

as my only thought is to take you in my arms, to soothe the solemn hurt in your fractured soul

yet it is not for me to do

so

instead i absorb the silence, the words forming in the pregnant pause between, and just love the jagged pieces of you that tear the back of your throat

the beauty of pensive remorse sings softly into the air, tinting perceptions, defying expectations

would that i could erase that pain i would choose to let it be, for those ragged definitions are the ones that pull me in closer to the wobble of you

take your time my love

this delicious silence is to be adored, your existence is enough to sate the hunger in my chest, i shall happily abide in the between with you