May 7, 2025

The Way

The way you listen
with your eyes closed 
as if to focus intensely
on every word 
to capture the essence 
of what lies beneath the surface 
of my heart 
has encapsulated me 
in warmth
of the most secure kind 

The way I want to
live here and tell you 
all the dark secrets 
that have plagued me 
until I have let it all go 
so that I am not the only
one holding on to it 
anymore 

The way I am no longer solitary 
in the universe 
where the need for someone 
with just this 
tenderness of soul 
has arrived to step into my orbit 
and in every blessed detail I am shown

with the way you look at me 
when you open your eyes 
you look at me
and you know 
 
-Les’Nspired



the way this doesn’t exist