fervent locust
I held the wind that brush past you,
And felt the chill of sudden grace.
Does it mean that we have hugged,
Across this wide and silent space?
I drank from stream at foot of a mountain,
Where snows at the peak had melted under your touch.
If water that cooled your hands is now a part of me,
Are we finally breathing in the same rhythm?
Across the vast heaven, I placed
A sun among the drifting clouds.
A star to hold our romantic world,
Shining only for you and me.
And when the velvet night descends,
I’ll scatter moonbeams on the sea.
A silver path for us to tread,
Where time is lost to eternity.
I spoke your name into the hollow of a canyon,
Just to hear the earth give it back to me.
If the rocks can remember the sound of you,
Then perhaps silence between us is just a conversation.
Waiting for the wind to turn.
Deep within each soul, a spirit dwells,
And you hold the essence of mine
Clutched firmly in your steady grasp,
A love that is yours to define.
severe marsh
lavish kindle
hushed forge