Sunblood (iii)

and now

it settles

not gone
not ever that

i feel it still

in the quiet parts of me
where things don’t ask
to be explained

it isn’t soft

no

it has teeth

it knows how to stay
without asking permission

and i

i let it

i don’t reach for you

that would be too easy
too human

and this

this – is something else

something that doesn’t beg

doesn’t promise

doesn’t belong

it just exists

between that space
where nothing is said
and everything is understood

i could pull it closer

i could burn it out

but both would ruin it

so i leave it

untouched
unnamed
alive

because there is a kind of love

that doesn’t need a future

to prove
it happened

and a kind of hunger

that learns
to live

without being fed

and still

it stays

not louder
not weaker

just deeper

like something
that chose

to become
part of me