Embrace

You were the first weight I was given to believe in

Your touch arrived before I knew what touch could cost

I read your silences like they were something holy

And shaped myself around a warmth that hid the frost

Something passed between us without witness

When what you carried learned to wear my name

I have followed every fracture to its origin

And found that at the bottom it is only you

What was poured into me never learned to burn

A depth that neither of us could have named

I have broken through the layers of your love

And found that there is no end to what you left in me

No end

No end

No end to what you left in me