considering...

considering that love

moves at the speed of
the peculiar beat of a heart
we are refugees in our own land
wailing at walls in a house
where stretching shadows
fill corners to the brim
and considering the way
my heart wrapped itself
around you
it's no wonder we lost ourselves
but however lost
we must remember
it's love that keeps
hope so fragile
that in fear
we lock it away
until that one calls you
by your own true name
shaking free
that one bright, shining and
forgotten thing:
ourselves