Within the swimming night
I can make out
Your
Open heart
Bound by the moon
With its silver arms
Leaning into the window
With hands extended
So that my soul can step out
Of its paralyzed shell
To greet your
Darkness
With its one broken
Wing.
Sometimes, I lose myself
In you,
I forget the intricacies
Of my own soul, and I
Become a solitary
Pilgrim searching
Your veins
For my purpose.
Your greatness did not come
From your achievements, but
From that obscure depth
I reached and reached into,
But never seemed to be able
To measure.
We have the night Shadows all around us
Stir not by me today
Let them come and sleep beside me
Like water sleeps in the rain
Close not your hand against what is frozen
For it will also one day become yours
But wrap your light so carefully around it
Like you wrap yourself around me
Do not think you can solve the knots in the wild weeds
But let your riddles be solved in me
Let us grow together wildly
Like streams grow wild in the sea
Clothe dark woods in the secrets you keep
But let your snow be draped around me
You can leave your feet bare against the stones and the mud
As you can leave your heart bare in my keep
You are the river
Running thought me
Comforting, unabashed today…
But tomorrow…
Flooding me with your
Boastful aggression.
Still, the battered banks
Of my youth
Continue to hold you,
Growing Wildly lush
In your aftermath.
My solitude crossed
Your silence
And suddenly,
The wind changed course,
Whirling
Outbound ships
Back to shore.
I drowned myself
In the depth of you
And resurrected
As a constellation of Light.
In your labyrinth
Of added lives
I became lost
In your trackless breath,
I rose and fell,
Rose and fell.
Until I merged
Carrying your soul
Upon my back.
My silence broke
Against your voice
And shattered
Into a mosaic
Of uncarved thoughts
Could I lie once more
in the breathing brooks
of twilight dim
and fill my heart
with each haunted place
I saw upon your lips
I would walk again
through winds of dreams
as though I was a ship
a’blow, adrift
to the shore
of yesterday’s last kiss
