"Sleepless"

 Sleepless

 I feel your mind

 It does not sleep

 I hear your thoughts

 Crawl up inside me

 I feel your hand

 Beneath the sheets

 You toss and turn

 But don’t move at all

 Your hand grasps

 For mine

 You need to feel

 Some life

 You feel so cold

 So alone

 Although you lie

 By my side

 So distant

 You become

 So far your thoughts

 Can chase you

 How lost in them

 You find yourself

 I can take you in

 Hold you

 Close

 To my skin

 Feel the warmth

 That I give

 Feel the warmth

 From within

 My thoughts

 Weave through yours

 Your eyes yield access

 To bring you back

 With each breath

 That we take

"One Drop"

 ONE DROP

 One

 One insignificant droplet

 Forms unannounced

 Is pulled back into itself

 And disappears within its mass

 One

 One simple droplet

 High above the grass below it

 Falls, glistening like crystal

 Fatally falling to the earth below

 One

 One droplet quivers

 And breaks loose from its perch

 Quickly devoured

 By branches beneath its path

  

 One

 One misguided trickle

 Bends and weaves itself along a rock wall

 Reform, rejoined, departed

 With every curve and bend it faces

 One

 One growing tear

 Two tears

 Three tears pass by my window

 And meet again to be reborn

 One

 One delicate droplet

 Joins another and joins again

 To be consumed by itself

 A ripple, an echo

 One

 One endless beat

 One calming rhythm

 One endless song

 To soothe you

 Until the sun returns