Find my

words in

your breath,

when a moment

takes your

breath away.


I write

to your

youth,


I write

to the woman

you are

and the

woman

you someday

might be.


the daughter

the wife

the mother

the grandmother,

the beauty

of all time

passing.


and though

always I

will just be a far

away witness,


think not less

of me,

for I have

written to

you, the best

that I can.


without need

without hunger

without pretending

to be anything else

that I am.


and love

seems like

such a

little word.


From a

thousand miles

away

I applaud

you.


as long

and as

loud and

as hard as

I possibly

can.

stars bend

at the sight

of you,


just to be

nearer to

where you

are.


just as you have

bended me.


and I

am so much

the better

for it.


I am so

much more

of everything.