you are
the answer to questions unasked
a single sweet icicle of promise in an unending desert of summer.
thought you a mirage
because of how quickly circumstances changed
from near
to a little far
to moving to the West someday soon.
i was wrong.
you are more than real.
not a deceptive bone in your body
not a single atom that fakes integrity in your form
not a runner in the direction of away
just a leisurely captain of a ship that sails in languid tiptoes closer
enjoying the journey.
i like that.
you are
the one i hold in my mind’s slumber
and awaken happily
…sometimes with moments of you
pressed to my chest
cleched in sheets wound round my legs…
but mostly dressed in disjointed fragments of mirrored smiles
… i never remember my dreams that come true
you are
brilliance dancing off the page and into my blood
you are
illumination sliding slowly from the farthest point in the universe
that has been on its way to me since the beginning of time
surviving light year travel to whirl around this humble earth
whirling your luminescent intellect across each life you touch
you are
song sung without words
jazz even without sound
my thoughts scat you all day long
you are
a quilt of saved pictures
recorded voice
mysterious letters formed to conquer me
watercolored or oiled familiarity
you are
what i see in the mirror
when i look into the hunger of my own eyes
you are.
and that is all i need.