If She Is Just A Name Poem by marietta cantos

If she is just a name
to you.

then
you will never know
how this formless name
breathes your name
to form you
in the deepest alleyways
of her inward eye.

if she is just a name
to you.

then
you will never feel
the umbra of her touch
when this
formless atom
bends to kiss
her last.

if she is just a name
to you.

but somehow...
yet somewhere...
in some distant universe
you will begin
to miss

the name.