I WOULD WANT TO.

I would want to close myself inside a  locket

which you will hang around your neck,

so I can feel the flow of your blood

in the pulses of your veins

and the sequence of your  heart beat.

I would want to sit in silence

and refrain each word you said

and the sweet sounds that you whispered

and savor in the emptiness of a room

the depth and the weightiness

of each and every syllable.

Alfred Grech

10-01-2019