You don’t need words to understand how I feel,

to know how engaged I consider to be involved

in the art of one sided conversation that you employ.

I take it all in and if I should desire I could shut my eyes

gently and let my ears take me to the paradise

you promise, the Heaven in which I desire and lust after

more and more each day.

Many I have loved, and I could recite their closing words to me

when they whisper down my ear with the subtly