Moonshine

Should we be strangers still

By moonlight

I will learn to peel your words

Before I feel them seep

Inside my veins,

Before I let your eyes coerce me,

Before I trust your ears to catch me,

Before I know your arms too dearly.

You, too, are a wonder

To me some nights

When with my little hands

I break this moon into a thousand sighs.

I want to know this light.

Whether it crumbles like roses,

Whether it hangs from the silence,

Whether it lives in a cavern of doubts.

And when it flakes, whether it coats us both in stardust

Till in the dark, we've no more moon
For empty sighs to rustle in our bones.