Here, darling, let me
listen to your heart.
Let’s close the computers,
and mute the phones
and hush the long list
of things to do and sit
here together and listen.
We can be alone wherever we are.
Any part of me that wants
to fix you, I will invite it to still.
Any part of me that wants to debate,
I will notice it and allow it to fall.
I will not say anything
at all, except perhaps I’ll hum.
Maybe nothing will happen.
And maybe as the elders say,
we will be changed
forever.
I like that idea, that “nothing happens” and the possibility remains that “we will be changed forever.” That’s worth a whole bunch of humming.