Hold Me In Your Arms --- Contest Entry

The light will still fade, if I take you in my arms, but your eyes will be closed, safe in our secret light. The wind will still quarrel with the trees, but your ear will be near my chest, as the wish to be here with you, always, repeats, as if it will do any good, but right here, right now, as Summer condenses into warm honey, your thought spreads through the jar of my body from base to brim, heat I cannot give, only return to it's rightful owner. The world will still be cold; the world will still be cruel, even as my arms give you rest, but I will give you rest, until it comes to take me too. 9-18-2017