Take the sky
We take the sky -
I’ll take you with me.
I borrowed wings from an owl
that I raised last night.
It fed on bits and pieces
of left-over words and dreaming.
It drank what was left of my rhymes.
We take the sky -
your arms around me.
We’ll leave the gutters
and the golden spires below.
The beat of my wings,
the weight of your heart
will bind us and take us home.
We take the sky -
I’ll take you always,
through the sullen rain,
the grey-locked clouds,
to the portals of naked surrender,
the moment of murmur and sigh.
We’ll break our world into a burst of stars.