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The Taste of Love


I had forgotten what love tasted like 

Until it melted on my tongue

Today… filling me

With the flavor of you.

Now it lingers…

Informing every

Breath…

Every thought…

Inescapable…

Delectable…

Mouth-watering

Delicious.

My heart quickens

My breath catches

And every inhalation

Carries with it 

The essence of you

The taste of love…

A flavor long forgotten

Lost to me… 

Or so I thought… 

Until today… 

Life renewed

Revived 

In a glorious moment

Explosive joy!

Grief


Your grief pierces me

and I feel it as acutely

as my own –

this pain…

at first sharp,

breathtaking…

then… settling in

making itself at home.

A duller, but still constant,

ache…

making friends with all

the other grief

all the loss, pain, fear…

finding its spot among

the rubble.

Somehow finding

beauty in finding

a home in me.