I have a cave
in a desert wash
where I go to fast
and dream
In the fire’s delirium
shadows dance
the close grained walls
in time to memory’s song
Swirling and gliding
they coalesce unbidden
into your singular
silhouette
Your ancestor’s genes
have robbed me of you
the mind and body
that made me whole
But through closed eyes
I see the light-less you
cast aside such constraints
and flow across the space
The one I once held
transubstantiated
by a play of light
into a healing phantom
Enveloping me whole
every inch and pore
You bind up my aching soul
into your all again
My mind is flooded
with our time together
every instance of love
shared between
Hands held walking
our singing laughter
secrets savored and
bodies caressed
Lying now on the stony floor
awash in all of us
I open myself to consecrate
the rising need awakened
And climax in remembrance
of every intimate act
as your last words echo
into the fading night
We will ever be one together
