I need your dark eyes, Diva,
like I need the eyes of an unknown Lover
beneath the Moon, like I need the tides
of an ebony ocean that might call me to the Stars,
I need your whispers & the unknown magics
of your heartbeat when it dances in the night,
I need you to feed me, delicately with your fingers,
the delicious secrets of your desires, the nuances
of your wisdom, & the clear bright diamonds
of your tears, I need you to hear me & to heal me,
& to wash the endless dust of broken dreams
from the deserts of my Spirit, I want you to embrace me
with the fierce flame of your Grace, with the infinite
lithe textures of your skin & muscle & bone,
I want to dissolve into you until we are as one ocean,
one heart, one mind, one infinite strand of nebulae
strung across a darkening sky, long have I journeyed
on this path of sorrow, loss & tears, long have I danced
with the maidens of fragrant mountain meadows,
I have been all things, all storms & subtleties
of both shadows & Light, but now I am lost
without a beacon, a restless hungry child,
I know the Cosmos loves me like it cherishes all poets
with wayward wings, but today my breath feels mortal,
I bleed as if wounded & astray...
--NorthPoet, from VISION RIDER...