Thursday, June 19, 2014

Friend

I wake in the night
To feel my ribs burning.
Your face is a stranger,
Your actions are stranger

for you are the stars to me

Rock me to sleep
in these storms of disaster
Wake me, early,
to sunrise & fire

Look out on the water,
not even a ripple,
not even a whisper
of shipwrecks beneath

These tides are torment.
Underneath the shifting skies,
I try to map the
unfamiliar oceans in your eyes.