unfair air

and i said to the world

will it ever stop

and it said

it did it did

but the love before

never does

because against terror

we can only move

terrifyingly forward

so

that when there are whispers again

lonely and afraid and attempting to unsee

the dark heaviness that hurts always

one can share the light

that shakes the stars

into full colours again

that bandages trembling fingers

worn from being

into fumbling meaning that can hold

and hug and hope and handle again

against the crying emptiness of it all

and i replied that this wasn’t much

and the world said

i know but know that it is enough

for you are enough too

even if you don’t know it always