Love song

I cannot tell my tongue 

to tell you

How you are all 

my meaning

my sounding depth  

in a shallow world 

of shallow things

you are all and everything 

I try to articulate 

what you mean to me 

but instead gesticulate the geometry

of the space you occupy 

in my heart

chalice of my thoughts

Here the connection we share

Is rare raw and conscious 

Like a jewel

from some Kipling East.

Jungle glowing. And

The world Disrobes us

to the skin

To be close as close can be

We feel the surface of the seeming

Dreaming world ever closer

explore the inner fleeting

At the depth of being

Where time slips away day to day

Evening by evening

Breath by breath 

Hour by hour 

Each kiss closer to forever.