Once Alice Grew Up

 

I utter your name....

   In the ether, 

Tangibly feeling the bell of me ring. 

It is a siren's call

  Through distance, 

       Through space....

Through dimensions...

  There is no place 

For you, I can't go. 

  It's true. 

Boundaries and timelines broken; 

  The cosmos blasted apart. 

Not a redefinition of love, 

Rather alive in its Purest form as Art

Quaking the realm, and space, 

  Delirious from the shakes, 

Half stumbled through

  Only to find you. 

Serene eyes piercing back, 

  Between us a pile of rubble. 

Intense forecast scooping me up, 

  You a strength after the battle. 

And I let myself fall, I did...

  Because as a woman, I was weary 

of being warrior. 

Indelibly, 

  Inexhaustibly  

and to my bones. 

But you just cried with me. 

  You just grasped me tight, 

 and promised to never let go. 

And ever....

  Ever since the day you called...

I utter your name into the ether. 

The one I know. 

The one you say, I say. 

I utter that name. 

  Because it is the only way 

I know you.  

      Mine. 

    My "Jack". 

My sweet memory. 

  Reverence held like halo. 

So I let your reverberation ring. 

  It....

  Is other worldly, 

Feeling it in me, 

But more like shock and dissonance, 

  Before the tone finds pitch to sing. 

  It....

Sounds in me, 

My atoms dancing excited restructured adorations. 

  Lit up. 

Not because of some fantasy of you. 

  Rather reality needs no fabrication, 

In our world- magical and tangible to us. 

Real. In every days. In disclosure. And discuss. 

  In unparalleled sequence 

Of thought inspirations and such...

  I certainly....

   Fell after you. 

King of Wonderland.