unsilenced

Your face was carved from smoke.

Your voice numbed the world with just one word.

Your eyes were the darkness beneath the storm.

Your chest and arms, the mountains that kept me warm.

The sound of your heartbeat made the planets collide.

The weight of your lips changed the pace of the tide.

You made me whole and tore me apart.

And your perception of life unsilenced my heart.
<3

~Haley K. Johnson

2003