this is it, to keep me alive

the unbearable truth
is that even after these decades
have passed between us - so far apart -
you are like my breath

i have begun to gasp for you
it is inexplicable
you have been living in my dreams
too vivid for reason

there you are

there you are
in the shadows that i tried to touch
your spirit open,
cut without precision
ripped and bleeding
not bothering to know
that i would bind those wounds

dream

it woke me
your arms around me
body close
your warm whisper
into my hair
your admission
you’d been dreaming too