Are you the one for whom I searched?
Scratching the surface of the skin for hidden stings?
Poking in places where I did not belong?
Have I embarrassed you?
Made you blush and turn away?
Are you aware how long I've looked and lusted
After the traces of your scent
On the gentle breeze of evening.
I've torn down houses looking for you ,
Mowed down old forests like they were merely men.
I've drunk whole oceans,
Thirsty for the taste of you,
Only to find myself dizzy and belching
On the shores of a dead sea.
Do you know the mountains i have moved?
The deserts sifted, grain by grain of sand?
And how many answers have I found?
Your name written in the mist?
You calling out with the voice of the wind?
A flower exactly like your skin your lips your eyes?
A bright spot of sunlight shifting on the forest floor?
A star that died in eons past
Whose light only now begins to twinkle in a corner of the sky?
What are your names, the first and last?
How should I call you?
Is there a number for you?
I can reach across space and time,
But only so far, so long.
When I find you again, will i know?
It has been so long,
Am I still searching
Or merely waiting
For the end?