The Way You Laugh

acrylics on canvas
imitation gold leaf
90 x 90 xm
2020

available // 390 € (incl. VAT. 10%)

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sometimes
this still happens
I have to curl up
underneath the blankets
and wait
for my breathing
to warm up this space

these cool covers
shielding me 
from loneliness.

only when you are gone
or I am
I understand
how much
you really are -

that it’s your warmth
warming me up in the evenings
that it’s your breathing
lulling me to sleep

I wake up only to look at you:
such a miracle that you’re there
you’re such
a miracle

you probably have no idea
how weighty you feel and 
how lucky I am
to carry that weight

it changes everything,
changing me
into something truer than
I alone can be

and I remember
how you laugh
I remember and, 
heavens,
I still shake
to my fingertips.

sometimes
it’s still like this;
a hole your size in my bed,
the size of a life
and me trying to warm up this room
with the beating of one heart

that I imagine
to be two