secrets sigh all night tigers slide into the sun dappled shadows in between memories of forests more real than they were living death is a concept of linear minds thoughts traverse a limitless space sensations of touch on a cloudy day as real as the moment we first saw them filed them away pull them out again another day emptiness is the space between the bell where the melody begins ripples, build like a song and a dance the music tugs a string inside us, we call it a soul a need a desire feel the notes like rushes of the wind on a chilly fall day like touches of the tips of fingers in the dark of lips on the soft cold skin on the back of the hand of the lost in the sea we can drift and we can feel the current blow underwater weather rages like the storms above and we can be