wanting tonight
crying for words that have no sound
my heart an aching, rusting hole
i’m not sure if it’s there anymore
all purity lost long ago
washed away in the waves

beckon me, please call me back
I cannot be but yours
my lover
whose image I bear
in whose arms I find
refuge i come
run
to the one who holds the heavens
in whose heart I find solace
sanctuary
hide
from the one who
would strip it all away

words
won’t come
won’t purge
themselves
from my hands
holding
them like
birds
little
sparrows
sitting
on my hand
flitting
coming
back
again

You are young
you walk
in steps I have forgotten
you dance
to words i have not known
you speak
of desires I still feel
you ache
over wounds which have long scarred
my heart
and i have long cried for you
young blood