Dancing without you

Dancing without

You but with

Rhythm and

Movement

Gentled

In the depths

Of my soul

Buzzing in every

Rising cell

I will give love

As a gift

Expecting nothing

In return

I will love love

Even when

It hurts me

And I will dance

As if my soul

Was on fire

And then I will dance

In it's ashes

I will be hurt only

When it needs me

And I will love

As if it were a dance

A Poem for Fall

Holding you

Laughing into

Your hair

You laughing

Into my neck

My tender dance

And falling spinning

Life can be

So sucking lifting

Hard and cold

Hard to sleep and

Hard to hold

I'm spent of you

And balanced

I'm looking out

Looking back

And thinking of

Your laugh

Tender tinder

In my neck

It's raining

It's raining

And windy

And I wake up

Full of the

Pointless energy

Of change

Thinking of

The far away

Wishing I could

Do something

Anything

To take myself

Further from

Who I am

Right now

Wanting to

Run and jump

Melt in the

Nostalgia of crying

Into the ocean

Play with a dog

Spin and swoop

And I wonder

What you are doing

Right now

Making coffee

Tree pose

Feeling kind

Looking for clover

Turning and speaking

To someone

Asking a question

I feel pointless

And happy and sad

And you are

So very far away

And no closer

Than you were

Years ago

But you are still

You and that

Is all that matters

To me