All those words just came
tumbling out of your mouth
like a whole lot of preposterousness;
shocking me, exposing me.
so many F words: fear, fall, fault
and some L words: longing, love.
I just sat there
watching your lips move,
in all your bold confidence,
as my secrets spilled from your mouth;
a kind of determined liberation.
A release
of the darkness
out into the light,
giving voice to all that had been crawling around inside of me; like so many tiny white moths exploding out of the shadows.
How dare you. And thank God.
(And how long have you known?)