You.

Written in January 2021

i want to climb you

envelop your body with mine

hold you

i want to wrap myself around you

cocoon you in my love

transform you

i want to break these barriers

end this isolation

fall into your arms

and be held by you

you.

you, whom i haven’t met yet

a figment of my overactive imagination

creating a future in which i am madly, deeply in love with a woman

and she loves me too

you.

i dream that you are sunlight incarnate

with lips that taste like summer

and words as sweet as honey

you.

i dream that you are home

safe and warm

a shelter in which i seek refuge from my storms

you.

i dream that you are a lighthouse

guiding me back to shore—

to you.