Tag: relationship

Many Years Later

~ SW Altair ~ 16 Comments

You still sit beside me as I rested after a long day, 
brushing my hair out of my face.

At dusk we go into the kitchen, 
you wash the lettuce and tell me about your day,
I laugh, forget things, and cut carrots into funny shapes.

And there are breadcrumbs and spilled wine on the tablecloth,
we still haven’t quite figured out how to be better at this,
but in the fading sunlight we are learning, God we are learning.

Before falling asleep
I look for your hand to touch mine.

Love is not difficult.
Not difficult at all.

California

~ SW Altair ~ 4 Comments

for Li

The moment you came close I knew 
there was an ocean inside you 
that I will soon drown in. I could 
forget everything but the sunshine 
in your skin, still warm, still warm
                                    on my tongue. 

No matter what happens, my love,
your body will forever haunt mine – 
all I have to do is breathe,
and I return to you, a land 
where red poppies and I bloom.
And when I kissed you in the rain, 
vulnerable yet alive, the sky 
                                  was no longer a sky, 
and your name 
was no longer a name.

Lately

~ SW Altair ~ Leave a comment

I have been writing about us,
fervently, constantly, and endlessly, 
so we don’t one day become memories – ashes
of a great fire  that once burned down an entire city 
in my chest. 

Spring

~ SW Altair ~ 7 Comments

Even when we talk, we share
between us an infinite silence.
Beneath all the small words we give
each other, “how was your day?”
“look, the sun is setting.”
there is a silence as patient as
the warm soil of a spring garden
under which seeds of desire sleep.