to the beat of your heart
For you, I would
capture the candlelight
in the palm of my hand
Give my breath
to give it life
A whisper,
‘My love’
So that it may grow
Bright and hot
And burn me
For you, I would
drink the salted oceans
Until their depths
Were swallowed
into the depths of me
How deep it is, this life
This love, for you
I cannot touch bottom
I never will
For you, I would
mine the stony earth
Until it relinquished
The secrets of time
Cracks in the stone
wrinkles of the Earth
As she turns her face
to another new day
And so I wish to live
Every one of mine