Maps

Stay where you are

I've no maps for your eyes

No directions whatsoever for your body

And while our waves intertwine

I only wish to caress the sand

Of your skin

But stay where you are

Sometimes I think

You're better from a distance

For distance

Doesn't let me see

You going smoother with time

Washed like rocks by the sea

And I walk through your silence to say,

“The night is but a river,

Flowing from your eyes.”

Stay where you are

Tangled in the morning

Like your hair at noon

In the unruly wind

Where you trudge closer

On haunted rides

Through razor sharp tales

Hiding from thirsty beaks of crows

And as your neck becomes the road

That lays out shining before me

Where I go dancing in circles,

Let my whispers treat you well

Stay where you are

Or be here now