I have a cave
in a desert wash
where I go to fast
and dream

In the fire's delirium
shadows dance
the close grained walls
in time to memory's song

Swirling and gliding
they coalesce unbidden
into your singular
silhouette

Your ancestor's genes
have robbed me of you
the mind and body
that made me whole

But through closed eyes
I see the light-less you
cast aside such constraints
and flow across the space

The one I once held
transubstantiated
by a play of light
into a healing phantom

Enveloping me whole
every inch and pore
You bind up my aching soul
into your all again

My mind is flooded
with our time together
every instance of love
shared between

Hands held walking
our singing laughter
secrets savored and
bodies caressed

Lying now on the stony floor
awash in all of us
I open myself to consecrate
the rising need awakened

And climax in remembrance
of every intimate act
as your last words echo
into the fading night

We will ever be one together