To The Daylight

do you not know

that where you are tearing

beneath the surface

I can feel you trembling

our emotions 

are tangled root systems

connected where the earth

obscures our vision

under the rocks / the sea bed 

the foundations 

of the houses 

when you draw the blankets up 

to cover yourself in sleep 

you slide into the city of dreams 

and your body waits like a drifting leaf

like a shell of the self

that you bring 

to the daylight 

the kernel of your spirit

ever burning / ever ready to bear fruit

is walking in the fields of starlight 

lifts on the storm winds 

where the waves batter the walls of ice 

makes jubilant fireworks 

where we touch against each other