Language of Love

What is the language of love?

How do you pronounce it?

Do it's characters dance on the page in broad strokes

Or is each movement precise and confined within a hidden shared understanding

Does every word function the same way?

Or does it tease and transform based on context and tone

Does the meaning translate in other languages?

Or does it dissolve when broken down

becoming disjointed pieces, puzzled together - yet

Incomplete, Inconsistent, Irrelevant

...devoid of meaning

Do you read it from right to left or left to right?

Is it dead or still breathed?

Known yet unknown

The language you speak

The one I desperately wish to learn

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Krystal Thomas, November 2024