Hallowed Ground

I don’t look deeply into your eyes

With the passion of a silver screen

To tell you how much I love you

Not because I’m dying to hear

How much you love me too

Not because we’re going to act it out

Again and again

Not because we’re going to get paid

Until the end of a script

Or till the royalties run out –

No

We use words that are never spoken

And live them out every day

And night

For the silence of words

Is hallowed ground

Between two souls

Shoreline, January 1, 2011