To The Naysayers
If this
Is my Undoing
I never want to be
Held together
Again.
Eye to Eye
I want
Your Eyes —
I want every raindrop
To pitter-patter over our faces
Until we laugh so hard
We can’t tell the tears
From the rain —
I want
My Eyes —
I want every look,
Every flitting away,
Every gentle gaze —
I want to cradle the words
Only you and I
Can hear —
I want
Our Eyes —
I want to walk side by side
Through the scorching snows,
And freezing suns, and the
Storms that rock the sea —
Eye to eye,
Hand in hand —
With our lantern Words
Alight.
Incandescent
If you looked at us
The way we are —
You’d see us glow soft around the edges —
You’d see our figures glittered in
White-gold light — flecked out
From the tip of a feverish paintbrush,
Made luminous from the music
That blends the moon
And turns the tides.
You’d see us gently
Lanterning the clouds from behind —
Bringing light, bringing thought,
Bringing love —
To dreary nights.
And you’d understand that
This isn’t a science,
It isn’t mappable — it’s
Real and it’s bright and
It’s More
Than every star
On every chart there ever was…
We are Incandescent —
We glow, we love, we beam —
We blend the moon into song,
And turn the tides.