We stood in the dark and mud of that Taupo forest
couldn’t see the sky
even if that was where I wanted to look
and it wasn’t, was it … Juliet

With a wind that moved so slowly the leaves turned one by one
a wind you couldn’t feel, only hear
and I bent down to your whisper
your sweet warm breath in my ear

Perhaps I never really listened all that well
I’m not sure what, in the end, I missed
Your lips so close to me, your hand on my arm as if for balance
stretching, on your toes
You were right I heard no words …

Just Juliet and her code of silence