shaking hands

you speak, in a room
full of no one and every one
and i can see, in truth that looms
all the shaking you cover up
pressed under skin like a hiccup

i can see you now, you tremble,
hear the jolts of your heart ignite
feel your words, in the air, fumble
and i wonder who you see out there
when your eyes stop and stare.

i hear your self deprecating humor
the laugh that hides the face of you
and the pain that quietly murmurs
that travels through you and into
the sky, reflected in its mirror
all the fears that you so feared.

if i could, i would kiss your trembling lips
and soothe those fallen words
until i twist and break and flip
them to mean what you mean to say.

i want to step inside you, calm

the tremor, take your shaking hands in mine

and let you fall apart in my palms

like a landslide coming down.

but i would find you again, 

in the crumbles of you, 

in the avalanche, and begin

to hold onto to you until the earth 

stopped trembling with

your shaking hands. 

Reviews

[Emily Rae]

this is beautiful. I especially love the stanza,

"If I could, I would kiss your trembling lips and soothe those fallen words until I twist and break and flip them to mean what you mean to say"

you capture the internal vulnerability that we all try to hide and make it something that is lovable and endearing

[Lily Mae]

"i want to step inside you, calm
the tremor, take your shaking hands in mine
and let you fall apart in my palms
like a landslide coming down."

So beautiful.. I simply love the way you spin magic with your words..xx

[deeps]

Very nicely written and done.
Love this it' has a relaxing atmospehre.