dawn

for mantsi

i want to come to you
so i come to myself again
i want to see yr face clearly
so it recovers the misty radiance
of its primal clay
again i want to see you
so in the end you are not there
& you are there

to lose yrself in distances
so in the end you attain immensity yrself –
this crowds into my dreams

lips, eyes, yr face, yr laughter –
to clasp them so intimately
in the end they become definitions
of myself

i see you
& again i don’t see you
often i lose myself
only to be found in you

i’m closing in sister
to lose oneself in the trackless jungles
of the heart like this
so the heavens can witness our rebirth –

this is all i ask for