Love Poem: Whisky Tea
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Written by: Erin Beckett

Whisky Tea

What I wish to speak,

every endeavor would dilute 
the essence like Plato’s forms.

Can a shadow imitate heat?

Lost in translation, best to keep 
simple, lucid as a hand 
stroking cheek. 
But hands slightly tremble 
in the slightest of moments,
shadows you can’t help but witness 
in your vision’s corner, 

however brief.

I crave to show what I can’t speak
in purest form, then collect 
all potential meanings 
as if each held the key 
to all secrets beneath 

every star that gleams. 

If time’s an illusion, what of me? 
Simple queries hold the key
to grand possibilities. 
Everything’s trembling now..

We can only touch what seems. 

He touches her, she touches he.
What is there but revelry 
in unkempt distribution?
The patterns of art, 
songs of new and old, 
mock solutions and whisky 
in a cup of tea. 

But there in silence we see 

the thing in itself. 
Softly tugging your sleeve.
Kiss me harder, 
and softer.
Hold me tighter, 
and longer. 

Dream.