I'd sit with you every night
And gaze silent at the moon
The moon whose fingertips trace your jaw
And your lips and your cheeks
With light, with silver.
I would sit beside you
And hold your hand
And feel your heartbeat change me through the silk of your skin
And try to stay with you
As I always do
As a Universe of love races through my veins
And lifts my bones from the inside out
And breathes me in and up as if the stars
Would consume me
Would own me
Would gather in my chest and all burst at once
Into flame,
I
Would sit completely quiet and still
As I felt the black sky, like an ocean, close above my head
And rock me into dreams of your clear eyes
And saturate my skin with days and years.
You should know that I
Would follow that elusive path the moon tosses on the waves
Satin and diamond given breath
Given life
To lead me home to where you are.
I would kneel before the pale face of the moon
And cup my hands full of soft white light
And sing your name to the wild sea
And listen to it crash its echo back,
Over and over forever.
And it would shape lands. It would swallow the earth,
Searching, asking for you,
Like the waves that never give up their grasping for the shore
Leave glittering drops in offering, in worship,
In a promise that they will always return, pulled by the distant light of a love so powerful
It can tame even the savagery of the sea-
Even the very thundering surf which can twist great ships into splinters with its passion
And pull the strongest souls to the center of the earth
With a simple sigh.
This vast, fierce, brutal titan
Bows to tenderness. To light. To
Love
Of you.
And I would follow you
To the blackest edge of the sea
Where the darkness of depth is so complete that it becomes the spread of the night sky...
And I would sit with you on the hood of your car, looking at the moon
And hold your hand.
