Kin

Bridging the space between

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You are my kin

You may not know it yet
And the differences between your eyes and mine
What you’ve seen and what I’ve seen
What we both see
May serve to widen the space between us
Deepen the gap where sorrow falls bottomless
Like a void between worlds
No end to the starlit darkness
Where grief swells in waves

But if you close your eyes
And I close mine
I see a world between and reach for your hand
To send the image in pulses of heat and light
We are both skin, softness holding together earth and air
I can feel the resonance, a frequency between our bones
And I know
This bridge our fingertips make
Is the deepest kindness we’ll ever know