By kevin urenda
Date: 23 November 2000

your tenderness

Your tenderness
speaks the voice
of every woman who
ever lived in the tone
of your touch
and the haunting of the
thousand ghosts
in your eyes
souls who loved much
and loved always
it is all I can do
to hope that
one day
I might live up to the
way you look at me…

11.20.00

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