I display you as a flame set over my heart and they say, they see,
“she’s in love.” They see they say

“their love is beautiful”
oh because it is, we are beautiful together in this world.

nothing can touch us now, my darling;
they can try and fail and try again but this will not be broken–
cannot be broken

thank infinity for our time together; this time that casts shadows upon second hands and blows dust against the whispers of insanity

I love you to the lengths and the breadths and the depths
I love you across time and space and these numbered continents
I love you between night and day, and dusk, and dawn
I love you while you sleep next to me, with me, within me
and if this is the wonder that’s keeping your stars apart, Mr Cummings,

then this is the wonder that pulls at the distance
and the days
and the dreaming waves between us.