understanding,
kind compassion.
all knowledge in the world makes us close,
like twin hearts in this mortal body we are bound by it,
wrapped up so tight.
and when i breathe each breath is
a metric to that freedom,
each accompanying exhale a measure
and every pause is life.
i find language to be our liberator,
and in each culturally elaborated upon touch,
the deathbringer is slightly stilled.
