The disappearance of " ’ "

In the belonging and in the omission

’Tis all apostrophe

Lovers inventing pet names

Trying to bound that which is adored

For a call is a limit

Ring fences of nomenclature

And in the parcelling perhaps possession

Nine tenths

It has been said

I say this then

Is one in ten

Un-nameable

Un-boundable

Un-fathomable

Something is missed

Something slips

I give you no name

Because I cannot

You are the form behind the shadows

The pulse that sets the moment

Between the tick and the tock

No you are not

Words fail

In the beginning was the word

But there was no beginning

There are no words

Only merging

And edges melt

And names drift from us

With apostrophes