Held Waiting

A collaborative sequel to In the end

Audio read by Charlotte

Charlotte: Italics, Obsidian: Regular

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I may be held waiting
Many years, many lifetimes
To choose recognition

In the end
I’d choose you
It would always be you

Even after
The pride
The distance
The unnecessary silences–

My heart still returns
To your name first

And in this life
I call out in the night
To you

In hope, in faith
In knowing
Nothing else
Will do

As though oblivion itself
Had softened its hands
Just enough
To let me rest
Beside your voice

Over the oceans
Across the distance
I feel your soul
Calling me home

And when you answer
The night stops feeling
So unbearably large

As if even longing
Has finally found
A body to rest in

And when you answer
I sleep peacefully
In the beauty
Of the end.

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