28/03/20

If you were mine,
Like a rose.

If you were mine,
Like a cat.

If you were mine,
Like a gem.

I’d keep you from the storm.
I’d keep keep you from the cold.
I’d keep you from the dust.

Safe,
My love I’d keep you safe.

Happy,
My love I’d keep you happy.

Loved,
My love, I’d keep you loved.

But there’s a web between us.
But there’s a veil between us.
But there’s a road between us.

Like a foliage,
Like gossamer,
Like a helix.

Dusts 
Summits 
Galaxies.

Closer and closer,
Farther and farther,
Eternally and eternally.

There a thread, 
There’s a hope,
There’s a breath,

that can travel through space
that can travel through time
that can travel through universes.

I didn’t choose it.
You didn’t choose it.

It was written.

Where?
How?
Why?

You
&
I.

Here.
Now.
All over.

I follow you.
You follow me.
Linked to each other.

But you are not here,
You are never here.

But I am not there,
I am never there, 

And yet,
The seeds do sprout.

And yet,
The sprouts do shoot.

And yet,
The shoots do grow…

Into an oak tree.

Where nightingale can sing.
Where sparrows can hide.
Where thrush can nest.

If you were mine,
I’d be the robin on your shoulder.

If I were yours,
I’d be the cherry tree against your back.

Until then,

Your heart breaks and you worry for me.
My heart breaks and I worry for you.

You are the first.
I am the first.

Still,

Our hands never touch.
Our breaths never mingle.
Our eyes never meet.

If you were mine.
I’d be your comfort.

If I were yours,
You’d be my safety.

Until then,

I am a hope.
You are a dream.
We are a fairytale.

That we whisper to each other,
With a rose.

That we keep from each other,
With a promise.

That we bestow on each other,
With a greeting.