YOU ARE .......

....... a leaf being lifted
by the heaving waves of yore
as they lay you gently
upon some distant unknown shore.
you are the whispered touch
of a careless thief,
the ghost that haunts
the glistening graveyards of grief.
below the writhing living flesh
you are the symphony of pain,
the unnamed force that urges life
into the soil of hope again.
you are the firmament
that yields before my gaze,
the sentinels of stillness
that in silken shadows laze.
you are the death of a dreamless night
that wakens to the truth of light,
an unsung song that drips
from searching fingertips.
you are the silent spaces that lie
between surging sky and starlit street,
the grains of sand that shift
beneath my dancing feet.
you are the rhythm that beats
within the sepulchral hollows of my chest,
the maestro that sinks me
into deep and sinless rest.