You still look the same to me

Wrinkles by your eyes: sea--a place to be

Splattered across your face, your nose, the bridge

Met with the blush and kissed along the ridge

That speckled brown and the way corners meet

Of mouth and essence and down to your feet

That beating of your planetary heart

So at 'set we keep the stars, they depart


Come and be with me embraced

My light, blaring glow, your soul traced

My sunshine! Speak to me in that sing-song

Of the ways we, how do we get along

Slow-dancers in the dark, passing in flight

Flying wind, fleeting. Night, that empty night


We're together just apart, just us two

Hundreds of adventures, who else but you?

And losing things more than either can count

But still we pass to sleep, and about

The rhythmic ticks of life and its motions

All that it knows: the sea and the oceans


The gentle way your hand meets with my own

Your facial hair, the way--slow--it has grown

How you shave it all off, the way you change

Language, the lingo, all that we exchange


I love you when you're lost in your own thought

Far away and fantastical, yet brought

here. That distance. Space halts for none


Waiting for a shooting star: a lucky one

I love you when you go out of your way

To gather the gleams of sunlight, for they

Warm us on the coldest of lones, we take

Turns with its tenderness, custody, wake

I love you when you are simply you

It could be the orbit that I share with a few


Your quirks, your ticks, idiosyncrasy

Unrelenting love, oh, that windless sea

Together we will never stop growing

A hope, the universe is all knowing