A mystery box
Address unknown
Unmarked label
Quiet content
Wrapping noted
Secure string
Love handled
Over years
Remended many
Tender frays
Never opened
Treasured
Always

A mystery box
Address unknown
Unmarked label
Quiet content
Wrapping noted
Secure string
Love handled
Over years
Remended many
Tender frays
Never opened
Treasured
Always

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

An ugg boot
Slide on skin
Warm meet-cute
Spark the fire
Velvety thick
Soft to touch
Liqueur sip
Massage all
Aching places
Best worn
In private
Never take
It off

Blank canvas
So tragically
Uninspired
Make a mark
So daringly
Invented
Happen upon
A feather
To conjure up
Full plumage
Light upon
Beached hull
To envisage
Wooden ships
Pluck remnant of
Blue white shard
To dine at
Ancestral table
Treasure cover
Ancient amulet
Embark adventure
Neverending
Seed on breeze
Now sown
Imagine the tree
Full grown
Gaze a smile
Short story
To enter your
Worlds unknown

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


Pay attention
Naval gazing
To the heart
Inward looking
Realising
Affect affords
Little openings
Where thoughts
Seeping in
Under skin
Elevating
Heart making
Every day
Tiny delights
Intermingled
With spice
Grounded
Deeply rooted
Interconnected
Signs of life
When I look within
It's you I find