When you aren’t in the room with me,
the walls cry

Together we killed the spiders
that wove the webs
in damp and sad parts of you

What will the little girl once
afraid of spiders do now?

I got a text
from you
that called me “dear”
and I read it
over and over
again
and imagined
the word as it
sounded from
your lips
watching them move
to form the word
for me
whom you called
dear

I want to sleep with you
in the quiet darkness
beneath the sliver of a silver moon

I want to sleep with you
soft and close and tireless
gentle touching on a single pillow

I want to sleep with you
as the dawn becomes restless
breathing one into another life

I want to sleep with you
and find you deep inside my head
dark becoming light where you step

I want to sleep with you
every time every where
eternal
silence
blessed
amen

Nothing is going to last forever
except this

Things will corrode and crack
and crumble
not this

Rain will sweep away
the shores and drown the sand
and the shape of things will change
but this won’t

The planet will get hotter
and maybe colder
and things will burn to cinders
or freeze solid and still
not affect this in the least

This is something bigger
than the both of us
or the wind and the earth
or the eternity between
the galaxies

And once we are fully
aware of this
nothing will keep us apart.

I once dug a hole
all the way to China
and you'll never guess
who was there

I found a woman
beauty would blind ya
two eyes of jade
long golden hair

Rested on flowers
sunshine behind her
clouds like angels
were everywhere

She said I should know
where I could find her
there on the good earth
so precious and rare

I never could see
anyone finer
though I never went looking
I wouldn't dare

She saw me break down
and watched me cry
and listened to me beg
but she had to
shoot me
point blank
and be done with it all