delicate

i let my fingers
trace your bones
under your skin
and you shiver
just a little bit
as i paint a skeletal map
of your body
in my mind
for permanence

dreaming with a certainty
that we will be the same
in ten years time
our limbs tangled together
in a curl of intimacy

my fingers get caught
in the strands of your hair
and i laugh as your eyelashes
graze the soft of my face

and you see the pain
of my overflowing mind
in the smudge of a tear
as you stare into me and
ask me
not to leave you behind
when my thoughts take me
far away

and i will go
far away
when my mind wanders
and brings me to my hidden places

but you will always be
my home

and i will always come back
to you
and never leave you behind
as long as you are there
to bring me back
to the depth of your heart