Night Songs.

[Guest guest]

Night Songs

We wake up smiling.

All night long love has been whispering in our hearts,

with a gold tongued longing

that has been unwinding a green thread of bliss

like a river running through the valleys of our bodies.

I can feel you stir in my movements.

The rise and fall of your breasts

are waves beneath the shoulders of my dreams.

Dreams that walk within your house

like intimate guests

taking their ease upon your favorite chair,

admiring the beautiful self-portraits you made

before life swept you into perpetual motion.

Coming to your bedroom

to lay forget-me-nots upon your pillow.

And here, league upon league of lives away

I am closer to you now than ever we were

when our skin burned to be turned into one blood.

Does the light rest in sultry languor

upon your window sill this morning my darling?

It is my soul at last unmasked of this pretense

that we could ever be anything but light feinting

into a union that has been arriving like dawn

from the birth of this worlds love affair with time.

I am the call of your past made whole by this present devotion.

A lover you prayed to on the threshold of existence

to gather you to the harvest of this season.

And do you now turn upon your pillow

seeking the window where your life went into mine?

Yours hands are held out now

like song birds embracing my sleep

with the melodies of a tune we wrote for all lovers

when the One became our music.

Your eyes are an ocean of remembrance

that I fall into like summer rain.

Together we wake up smiling

with the singing of children returning home

to the arms of joy.

love

eric

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