Whether awake or asleep
A parallel reality
Woven from memory
Laced with dreams
Evades my spaces
Empty rooms
With music
On repeat
Behind closed eyes
Her face reminds me
Promises only keep
When stored safely
Entertaining
All kinds of things
Foreseeable future
Down by the sea
Takes my willing heart
On much needed holiday
While planting seeds
To grow all around me
To look upon her
Middle of the street
Dancing feet in flip flops
Cotton slung over shoulder
Carrying the weight
Of next week's movies
Breakfast treat
Colours and lines dance
In front of eyes
Stallholders parade
Eyes watching me
Rainbow carrots
Pink lemonade
Waiting next Saturday
For one more take
Twist of tongue
Pull of cheek
Humankind kindred
Lay eyes on
Every hour
Another week
In case of
Isolation
Raise a glass
To me
Time for new faces
Anticipated opening
Green spaces push
Up from soaking rains
Never hesitating
To greet new day
As if reborn
How can we?
One absorbs everyone
Street skate innocents
Remark on my blooms
Pruning rosehips
One wills to muster
A turn of the eye
Sideways remarking
On the weather
Real as concrete grey
Silverlining clouds
Through my hair
Wise highlights
Another covering
Dousing authenticity
New shoots recovered
To appear as one
Young forever
Ethical nature
To draw one out
Protect from predators
When they hide
On the inside
Under rocks
Not out open
How easy to mistake
To mimic a threat
For safety
But scare away
Own mate
Funny how I know
When I decide to
Stop chasing
With words
That'll be the day
You turn around
In the heavy silence
Between us
Where only smiles
Are found
Tell her that you love her
If not with words
Any other thing
Without a doubt
Most important
Need to know
Life or death
By an inch
Holding one
Away from cliff
Sudden drop away
To vast ocean
Of loneliness
Tell her simply
For vast open sky
Meets horizon
High and deep
Where love consumes
Our solitude
We float away
To worlds unknown
Forever
All done through the night
Holding on to the next
Wondering aimlessly
Hoping for return
Falling softly
Blossoms surround
Lift my face
Above them all
How to prevent
Idea of you
Growing so tall
Looking into you
Colour your world
Wrap you up
From head to toe
Fingers weaving
From one's soul
Heat flows
Melting snow
With every word
Come undone
Light a candle
Burning only
For one
Rich dark chocolate
Crema on a flat white
Tremble rolling bowling
Slippery smooth
Lips touched by wine
Low lights
Sinking eyes
Blues in bed room
Mezzo alto lullaby
Singings strings
Rosin glide
Hearing harmonics slide
When you speak
Into my life
Image credit ~ Emma Haynes
A multiverse grows
Out and beyond
Over and within
Unexplainable
To the naked eye
One only sees a light
A smile a look
A gracious word or two
The only way I know
How to love you
Is in spacious place
Wide open spaces
Long learnings ago
I hoped for one
To explore the cavern
Find the open door
My mind is endlessly
Travelling back forth
But pinpoints perfectly
On one such as yourself
A cocoon
Urging me
I have all
I need
Spinning round
Intimately
Fine silk
Weaving
Remaking
Every cell
To offer
Freedom
Count the stars of heaven 