You were all things to me
Breathing air seeing none
You meant the whole world
Revolving the sun
Reliving lost dreams
That fled once awake
Exploring new ground
No claiming a stake
Imagining lives
We never would live
Biding our time
For someone to give
Then dreamt of yesterday
All the days leading
Up to it
Slowly
Surely
Like a breeze
Gaining strength
To power a fleet
Of silent sailboats
Against the tide
So unlike a race
Us two ran last
Holding hands
Did not capsize
Basked in the sun
Caught fish
Explored vast islands
Spent time
All we had left of it
Till the finish line
We tell one another
We have and do
Always will
Love one and another
Forever till
Death do we part
I will catch a hint of smile
Leftover from a lover
Warm myself by it
Like a bedside candle flame
Bright orange
Thank their souls
For loving us so well
Mine is an evergreen
Glint in my eye
That turns to the sky
Drink in her memory
Crossing snow-covered peak
Parade lest it fade
Love is applied daily
Soaking in more than skin deep
She reads me well
That faroff look
Still dances with you alone
Silence falls our music plays
On repeat
Your every word
Tossed about gently
Like lost garments
In the night
On the deck
Of a ship at storm
Trip hazard
But loved once worn
In the daylight
As the anchor
Finds safe habour
Among living creatures
Seeking safety
Searching sea bottom
For friends and tidbits
Till bottomless glass
Tilts no more
I set sail again
Longing horizon
Begs me for more
A dance in jest
Most compromising
Steps two back
One forward
Tete a tete
Longing looks
She is leading
Backwards reel
To the lightfoot
Sound of five eight
Skip hop akin to
Bounding over rocks
Fit as a fiddle
Keeping in step
Plying me with
Stout and chips
Surrendered only
To the trip
Heart ticking
In time to a lover
If anything goes
Not you, nor yet?
She marches in time
To another
A one-way street
Obey all signs
No turn to meet
Long road travelled
Further away
A mind map daunts
Crowd pervades
Lest crossroad take
You winding back
To where the flow
Returns both ways
Soon as second summer fades
Gold leaf heralds the change
Climb atop pinnacle feast
Yearning eye spectacle
Brilliant openings abound
Underfoot and far
As the eye wanders
Missed by only a week
Left behind late bloomers
Scarce, rare and welcome
Shot of red against
Hard rock, lucid pools
Dreaming what came before
Never gazed upon
Rigid timing of fair nature
Meant never saw one other
In full bloom and open
Ready to receive a lover
Eyes averted
Hiding under hair
Meditating upon
Whatever's down there
Over your shoulder
Thrown without care
Showing me all
Pearls and chapsticks
In silent return
Mine replies
Yes I would like
To kiss you
One night only
Tomorrow knows
Every morning
How many ways I'll tell
Lengths and miles I'd go
To prove what you
Already know
I'd win Master chef
Learn to cook
World's best
Find tea of Ceylon
Brew delicious
Breakfast cup
Kick start business
Buy your dream
Beach house
Licence to fly
Drop you in
Western Wilds
Sail boat to ride
Marine exploring
Ocean tide
I'll take you all
These places
On our imagination
But only time
And place I have
Right here and now
Beside
Held on tightly
To mournful delightful
Words shedding down
A certain slant of light
Carried me onward
Into my enlightening
Years oft slighted
Hands held tightened
Let go realise
I never knew who
Bold and bright
She was me in spite of
Centuries between
Longing look at frond
A delicate hand
Responds to us not
Forget blue floral
Tongue tied knot
Unraveling over endless
Sails swept away
As long as the storm
Brews on horizon
Grip is tight
Bow turned windward
Fears stilled inward
At first sight
Of love
