You the Moon
Together we swim through the leaves, through hours.
Like candied children, adored in a luster
You count my blinking then dance through flowers.
We enter dark mystery, bravery mustered!
You're strangeness, red oceans crashing my towers,
Yet your absence leaves life in broken clusters.
So share with me now this realm of grace.
Let's break out of our old molds, and keep pace.
No great adventure is not without pain.
As every ebb is followed by the Flow.
Harm befallen by you is felt in my veins.
You are the star I've followed as if towed
Through the dunes and the cities, the fog and rain.
Your sickness is my own, as the arrow bends bows.
Walk forward, love, it is you I will follow
Singing our bottomless praise for tomorrow.
Bringing Present to Future's tabernacle
Your eyes wrap ‘round me as we turn to the field
“What will they think?” she asks, “a ship's barnacle…”
I reply, “you are the moon with no shield.”
“Where is my shield?” she asks as her eyes well.
“As the world’s protector, a moon needs no shield.”
Her sun-drenched arms slide like wings inside my vest
Her waking tears smear against my waiting chest.
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