To Gail: On Wishing You Home
Jim February 6th, 2010
To you who lights the fires of my soul
And touches all the well-springs of that light;
Whose fragrance wraps around me dark and cool
And drifts me through the passages of night.
I call to you across the weary miles
To feel your fingers brush across my skin.
I draw to you within a moment’s silence
And find that fading warmth of where you’ve been.
I drempt we walked together of a morning
Down through a sun-splashed wood beside a stream,
And to a cottage where we slept til dawning;
And when we woke we found it not a dream.
I would that we could leave this life alone
And fidn a pllace to truely call our home.