Robert Hamberger
The Thought
If if lose you. Watch how I bear the thought:
if I lose you. Never to sense again
your palm against my face while we explain
the way this day has gone, each night
across the pillows, talking late
with kisses when we could have slept. To remain
in a wood shouting your name among trees when
there’s no more chance of an answer. What
am I doing rehearsing the life I fear most?
Stay a little longer. You help to hold at bay
the emptiness under everything, just
your hand can achieve that, yes, against my
skin. The pressure of your fingers can insist
this is what matters: us. Here. Today.
if I lose you. Never to sense again
your palm against my face while we explain
the way this day has gone, each night
across the pillows, talking late
with kisses when we could have slept. To remain
in a wood shouting your name among trees when
there’s no more chance of an answer. What
am I doing rehearsing the life I fear most?
Stay a little longer. You help to hold at bay
the emptiness under everything, just
your hand can achieve that, yes, against my
skin. The pressure of your fingers can insist
this is what matters: us. Here. Today.
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