I have left the others
left the others to find you
waiting here,
holding on to the darkness,
nature turning wild around you,
an absolute truth blooming
in bleak winter:
sleeping eyes like blue sky clouded over,
red wiped across your cold cheeks
an ice skater falls on ice,
lips pressed shut—a footprint
in the snow,
your open palms a leafless skyline;
turn and face me,
so I know I have not mistaken you
for a dream.
I, an unbeliever, a sinner,
a girl,
you the boy I will walk again for,
quiet as a thousand sleeping children
a Promised Land I have searched for,
guided by an unseen hand through
dark and cold,
nature, turning wild around you,
blooming, freezing over, blooming--
oh, how I have loved I loved
you, for waiting.
left the others to find you
waiting here,
holding on to the darkness,
nature turning wild around you,
an absolute truth blooming
in bleak winter:
sleeping eyes like blue sky clouded over,
red wiped across your cold cheeks
an ice skater falls on ice,
lips pressed shut—a footprint
in the snow,
your open palms a leafless skyline;
turn and face me,
so I know I have not mistaken you
for a dream.
I, an unbeliever, a sinner,
a girl,
you the boy I will walk again for,
quiet as a thousand sleeping children
a Promised Land I have searched for,
guided by an unseen hand through
dark and cold,
nature, turning wild around you,
blooming, freezing over, blooming--
oh, how I have loved I loved
you, for waiting.