Always

You are so beautiful to me
You step into my space
With the tentativeness
I’ve come to know
Careful
Measured
You step carefully as if you know something we don’t

Your voice, so low and deep
Still calms me as nothing else can
Your swarthy beauty
Seems to fill up all the open space around you
And you measure me with your eyes
As you measure your steps

But when you leave
The echoes of you no longer stay behind
Even though I hold onto the memory;
The sheer beauty that was us

You still come when I call
Always
You step into my space
And your rage hangs around your shoulders like a cloak
Like you need the armour around me
But we can’t go back
And no amount of armour can shield us

And when I lie in his arms
And we laugh and we joke
A sorrow lies inside my chest
Because no one has ever made love to my soul like you did