I saw your body

Spill out like a timber line

I felt my body

As needles and pins to your pine

Unravelling lines

Of mountains and spines

Frayed into flight

And hung

From the trees

We lay beneath

You smelled smoke

From my body burning on a beach

I felt hope

From your body bending towards speech

Shaking like geese

Seeking out heat

Or feeling

Found out too fast

Or seeming too vast

With too big a past to stay safe in

There are hands that need holding

I only have two

I wring out their water and bring it to you

To that luminous darkness

Emerging between

My head and your head when we are sleeping

And I don't wanna die there

But do wanna stay

Long enough to love that place

Can i come to you often

With a weary embrace

Can i tend to your tiredness and sing to your strength

Dear distant friend

We are here till our bodies end

I wanna meet you there

Where it really begins

Parting the air

Leaning into the wind

I wanna hold your hand

Stepping into the dark

I wanna feel the land

That blooms in your heart

There are many roads

We will be on alone

And it's not true

Most don't lead home

But i will take comfort and joy

In knowing you're out there too

And sure i might get sad

When i don't get to see you

But when i do

I'm gonna wrap you in a flame

That burns away every name

The world knew

To use to be cruel to you