THE LONGING OF WONDER
by Michael D. Warden
I could ask you
a thousand times
do you love me
and it wouldn’t be enough
I catch the scent of you
like a wild wolf
under the full moon
like a runnerÂ
in the dark
I hear your song
in the winds at dawn
a near silent aria
just beneath
the kestrel’s wing
You are the white shining
of the morning sun
orchards of orange trees
waves of late summer grain
You are unguarded laughter
fire and night
a lifetime of adventure
So close!
You’re everywhere
like a lovely memory
I can’t quite
bring to mind
in everything
like the scent
of an old lover
filling the house
Yet my longing
never leaves me
I have seenÂ
what you are
I have seenÂ
who I am
I know they are true
and I know
they are merely visions
I knowÂ
we are all dreaming
The wonder aches in me
like the smell of the sea
I know you
I know you
I don’t know you at all
I don’t know you at all
