TWIN
I searched the surface Of the earth with blind eyes, Feeling the land to Find your hands resting there. [Raised up over mountains Pressing on pastures.] I found them not. I dematerialized to Become sky and Meet your mind there, To wrap my Tongue around and give Voice to the ghost within. [The blue and white Folding over us Like lovers in sheets] I found it not. My heart hardened And crumbled around Others Like bread left for birds. [You were lost to me.] Until wings brushed my face As gentle as wind through pines And woke me from a deep sleep. You followed my crumbled heart Back to its beginnings And pieced it together, Knitting it with your smile Your eyes, Your thoughts I had hoped to meet. And you loved me there Like that sky I had climbed into On my own. You laid on top Of me like snow drifts Covering ...