If you were here
longhaired
landslide
if you were here

and all the world

was in my room

and all my words
escaped me
I would let them.
With you, I have
no secrets, I take
no prisoners.
With you between
my fingers
with you in
my hand
my air
hidden, like so

with you between

my molecules

between the oxygen, behind the

carbon dioxide, I could

smell you.

If you were here
if I could breathe you
all my words would fail me
but you're not
so I have them
words fall on me
and I arrange them
stack them on top of
each other
building a bridge

so that I can reach over water

across continents

through space

and touch you.