Caroline Hugh

A Life With You

Breathe on me tonight.
Shut the world outside, it knows not of our love
I know of your ferocious energy,
the sparkle in your eyes as you drown in tinkling splinters.

The world is strange, indifferent, frigid, as I am
I have become too much like it-I have conformed!
Won't you tickle me with your warm vigor,
your boundless love and allure?

I realize it is you whom I need,
as I weep bitterly of the inexhaustible spin of days,
as I tap but never probe,
as my feelings are those of the moon, its waxing and waning.

I do not realize whence I have...