Ghazal: The Word Never Spoken

Forgive me, love, the word never spoken,
the explicit silence, implicit lie, all unspoken.

Forgive me the syllables of trespass left unspoken,
tongues of fire broken on the wheel of sighs.

Forgive me the come hithers to which I gave no reply,
the women I never kissed, poems I wrote on the sky.

Forgive me, love, the altar I built across your thighs,
the bibles of honey I burnt on the pyre.

Forgive me the holy names I did not blaspheme,
the god I left lonely in his cold machine.

Forgive me, love, the word never spoken,
the explicit silence, implicit lie, all unspoken.

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