bilingual

02/06/25

"Everything we can bear in this world,  someday we find it in one person, and love it all at once."

You make breathing feel like a love language.

Breathe into me. I'll breathe into you. 

I could be fluent in this with you. 

Only if you allowed. 

Do you hear me exhale while I sleep? 

Do your lungs recognize me? 

When your energy walks without knocking? 

You light me up. You make space feel like home.

I am speaking softness in tongues. 

I write a dictionary to explain the way you look at me, with your eyes. 

I think I could love you in every dialect, every pause, every deep breath of the truth. 

I want to trace your name in the condensation of all the times, I promised, I was done. 

The window still open just in case you come back with a new translation. 

I choose fluency. 

I write every vowel of you into my heart. 

Rhyme rather than reason.