Always

Silence

What words

Where is the hope

There is no syllable

or soft sound to comfort you

Not even the sunshine

can comprehend

or stop the tears

of your shattered heart

There are no words

Believe me

I have searched

every single

scripture and sonnet

I have found only one word

-Love

I give you my love

right now

as you focus

and breathe

in this moment

Remember your love

You are loved

Now

and into our next life

Always

So much love

By Susanna Hargreaves

Nashua

•••

She asked me the simplest of questions without knowing the deep history of the words.

She looked into my eyes with a flicker of realization and asked,

“How have I never met a heart like yours before?”

Love, there are no two hearts in the world like ours!

I have used this same heart

to give the same love with just as much passion,

and it has been broken many times.

I have put the pieces back together, learning the lessons along the way, and enough just to get through the day on others!

They carried me here to now. They have been guided by you from well before we knew we were looking.

But a love like ours is not for the inexperienced. We know what it is to love and lose, build and crumble.

We lived a life that had not happened yet with the faith that it would, and here is the miracle of how we became ourselves.

Without any of the times we thought we would never get through, we have endless days to put them behind us and keep

adding space. I look at the way I got here and thank god that it took as long to meet a heart like yours.

Peter Scheibe

Merrimack

•••

I wonder if I

will ever find the right words

so you will hear me

I’m a twisted tongue

your ears cannot find sense in

these visions put down

these listening palms

excoriated sanguine

waiting for the words

Jeni Alden St. Laurent

Nashua