If only you could feel
the tiny tremors
beneath my skin
   How they reverberate
become earthquakes
along the lines of my veins
the map drawn to my heart
     and all is shaking
along my spine
miniscule shivers
that send signals
up and out
      over desert mountains
into night air
over forest and verdant shadows
into the vast regions
of light and deep darkness
      into the realms of your mind  
swirling about
through your bloodstream
muscles pumping the message
via tenuous threads
nerves and tissue protecting
the delicate circling of
what I hold dear:
       nestled precious
your heart
Yes your heart
so very far
yet inside me,
      so near