I remember running to you
Though thousands of miles away...
In my heart, with words and sometimes blind
To you, my soul would seek and find
Your gentle touch, the quiet of your sighs
The delight of your words leaping up and out and in-
to my greedy eyes.

Though the winds have cast a thousand sands to seas unknown
And the sun has baked the ground twice around
And the blue skies have brought rain then hail then rain again
I remember running to you
With laughs and cries then 
I run again to beg against the tides of time
To find the quiet of your sighs.

I sipped the beauty of your voice
With ears soon spent in acoustic wonder
I felt your hands' shy thunder
I heard your whispers, sought your choice
The dance of you haunts my most precious dreams still
And I can't truly bring myself to tell
About the deepest pleasures and the thrill
Of your gentle lips and silk-soft skin
The deep and richest love found within
Your umber eyes, the motions of your dancing form
I run to you and love, I've always longed to run again.

I have ached for your presence
Mourned the loss of not being with your essence
Seen the mystery of you in sunsets and rushing streams, and in my dreams
Wonder how I could help you soar eternally between
Smiles serene and ecstatic screams.

When the skies have darkened with my own hunger
The power of life coursing through my veins the other way
When the pain of this living could not be held at bay
And was too torturous to share aloud
In aloneness trapped and deadly black inner pain a funneling cloud...

I ran to you in my thoughts amidst my prayers
Spun your voice in circles in my mind
Dreamed your smile so kind
Felt the rush of you as light in my darkness
And swear I'd hear the quiet of your sighs.

When the winds have swept my ashes into the desert seas
When the final word has spoken through my fingers and I am freed
And the last rush of life has borne itself into the starry skies
When my soul is struck by the lightening of all that's been
     and all is all untied
When despite myself I am forgiven yet again
And I am hence untorn, unbound and all the earthly tears have dried
When my spirit's finally drown in the riches of the light in which all abides...

I hope to run with you
And touch you with everything I am and what I know
In gratitude to give and show
How much your presence in my life has been
A blessed love and to
Beg of you:  Let's run again
In the quiet of shared sighs.

1:30a Sunday May 09, 2004