Where were you the first time you felt this longing?

A force to throttle even the mightiest of dreamers.

I know we carry the bones of our love in whispers,

a combined body of hunger wrapped in ribbon

bearing our names like some ancient declaration.

If our limbs could speak they might sing to existence,

the electric current that travels from you to me.

Wavelengths of connection, like lightning sparks

always seem to find a conduit to catch their energy.

I’d always thought of my heart like machine,

some suspended thing held together with string.

But with you, planets orbit around this beating sun

as if bodies are a galaxy of our own making.

Like Eros I sit and wait with my arrows,

a contemplative gesture wrapped in fear and wanting.

It is I who allows mortal yearning to ring out into song.

It is I who would sacrifice myself for love knowing the cost.

We are a symphony of cosmic dissolution, you and I.

Breaths in unison meet us at the forefront of desire,

melt into one another against the backdrop of time.

A multidimensional dream come alive.

In this new form we are anchored to rhythm,

a portal of presence in shadow and shape.

We have arrived beyond the vehicle of waiting,

dipped in aluminium and spinning like kites in the wind.