We can look at each other
From both sides now;
Letting the distance between
The me in you and the me in me
Soften us.
Knowing so perfectly
Each other’s geography,
We can pause to stay comfortable
In each other’s silence,
Leaving the lights to burn
All through the night.
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.
Seduced by your gravity, I fell
from weightlessness,
Slipped into my higher self,
And warred around in your heart,
Until your pull started pushing itself
Into my emptiness.
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.
You like to dry my tears
To give me a home
In you
I am someone
Who loves.
The endless chatter
Of the sophisticated mind
does nothing but
Curtain the knocking
of the tip-toeing light.
She opened her eyes
And smiled.
She was alone, and there
Was a coffee cup waiting, and
No one to tell her what to do.
We cry for what we don’t have,
for what is taken away from us, but perhaps
It is because of that longing and those dreams
we turn inside, and seek out
Another light, and another togetherness
that can never be taken away from us.
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
