The Four letter word

Music: Sting - Fragile

A four letter word
First utilized
By immature tongues
Hushed, harsh, stammering

Knowing little
But power undeniable
Or what was felt
As the word passed
And its effect

Sometimes shock
Nervous giggle
Sometimes disgust
With a walk away

But sometimes…
Sometimes
A step was taken towards
With inviting lips
And hungry eyes

The dangerous four letter word:
Love
When accompanied by a five letter word
Truth
A revolutionary manifesto issued
Signed in the fusion
Of forged hearts

A sanctified contract
Unbreakable
Though attempts to forget
Might be made
To shade
A lapse
Impossible

Time taken
Paths pursued
Are of little consequence

Senses are the greatest betrayers
Silent lawyers pleading
A case the heart long believed dismissed

With triggers that make little sense
To those who do not know

Simple sounds

Tapping spoon
Raspy shuffling
Feet through fallen
Orange of autumn leaves

The smell
Of freshly baked croissants
On an autumn morning
Or the trace of comforting fragrance
Wafting in the air

A sight
Fog covered countryside
Midnight run
Or a definite table
Empty or full
At a hallowed haunt

Forever evokes
Certain memories
Certainly

For me
The memory most vibrant
Is another five letter word

One may be shocked
Thinking it should be beauty
With its letters six

This is understood
To capture her lithe and supple elegance
Men would gladly throw fortune to the fates
For little more
Than a glance

Forever her vision of beauty
Sanctified

No
For me
The five letter word
Was laugh


To me
In tones melodic
Joy flew unrestrained
Hearts would meet
Unprotected and defenseless

Where
I was little more
Than me

And she
Was little more
Than her

But our little more
Was everything
Everything
In our world populated
by two

Therein was the danger
Therein was the silence

Yet now deprived
And denied
Painful understanding
Of the power of those four letters
And the promised revolution
Of renaissance
Remains stillborn

So
In crumbling facades
Of fragmented empires
May she turn to the light
Of my fragment
Within her heart

And fill the world
Nourish her soul
With the simple beauty
Of her laughter