Stay Wild

Stay wild 

do not let the hounds

run you to the earth

do not let the shouts 

of the privileged men 

with their red faces 

and thick bodies

call you from your course

like the hare 

remember to leap 

like the fox 

lean into your stratagems

into the maze 

of your game-playing 

and remain untamed 

it is the forest in you

the uncultivated fields

the steep banks

that I desire to know better

let me find the places

where I may be lost 

where few humans 

have set foot

to set up the tent 

of my devotion 

I want to watch 

the horizon

until the sun sinks

and the stars start up 

like a host of candles

ready to rage across

the battlefields of the sky

I want to plunge

into the river of you

where there is no one to see

my abandon 

or to tell me to be careful 

I want you to 

stay wild.