These Borders

The laughter lost its shape congealed turned to weeping dripped silently from the corner of my lips behind the border. Border upon border – like a wall... like the Great Wall of China – alien between us. You kissed my weeping laughter you kissed my sorrowful tears and pressed me to your chest you wept with me word by word, on the far side of the border. And another world a world without borders was born: a precious pearl from the depths of the sea of our tears: my love...