A Poem I Wrote - Echograph

Echograph

Hearing love inside you

it’s an unanswered call

that stutters yet never halts

and grows like a tumour

one you can’t control - 

not that you’d want to.


Thoughts flicker through your mind

they come to life like

drawings in a zoetrope

each steady breath and prayer

the ladder your lives

will scale.


An analogue image that moves

infrequently on the screen

like a bitmapped star

a rare indication of faith

knocking against a cage

to map out your face.


To trace worn skin and smile

to encounter your language and cherish it.

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