Persona

It is not enough to know of you
To be of you
I need to see the stars in your eyes
I need to see how color shifts
When you move
And how the earth gives and works
With you
Not against you
Fluidity and gentle power
Control
I need to hear the seat creak under your
Weight
I need to hear how the grass fears your feet
And how everything bends in recession
To your unrelenting being
I yearn for an understanding
A capability
To know
Of you
To be
Of you
To see to hear to entrust
Upon you
You are like a balance beam
With no safety net
And people fear to walk across
It is the fear that intrigues
And twists and turns
It is
Of you
All of everything
It is all of you
You have been engraved
Or maybe you engraved yourself
Into everything that exists in this universe
Specks of dust and the atoms holding
Me together
Have your fingerprints on them
Lo and behold
There is no way you have never touched me
Or touched the top of Mt. Everest
You haven’t even touched
The stagnant dust
From which where I lie
Longing and lamenting
Over my sorry thoughts
Of you