We go on knowing
Like the sun and moon
Our place in all this

Every day and night
The earth thinks it has us alone
While behind the horizon we would meet
If just to blow a kiss like a fall leaf
Coated in copper and tinged with the pain
Of unavoidable change

We both can hibernate
Like bears full on the fat of the land
We dream through our winters alone
While our bodies eat themselves

The sudden thaw telegraphs to our bones
Into the light we go
Stretching our legs
Shaking the sleep from our coats
Smelling the air, each at the mouth of our own cave
From which we flow, like words from the poet
Looking like water for the stream
To find the rest of ourselves
To become whole

In the ocean I’ll find you
Where the salt and fresh water mix, so will we
Carried by our purpose out to the ocean
Where land is a memory
We swallow the sky in gulps
While it bathes in the ocean

Into the atmosphere we go on the wings of air
Collecting with other lovers in clouds
Becoming so full of our selves we burst
Back onto the earth, we fall
Some up plant stalks
Some down ditches
Everyone to their place

On the earth
Beneath the sun
Beneath the moon
We are not alone, the earth does not have us
Alone