Collection

for _____.


"This kiss is for the whole world" - Schiller


I will build an icon of you,
a shrine. In it I will put
all the things you have given me:
hours of time, one kiss or many,
two dried tears,
a loving look. In it
I will put my hope, my
fear. In it I will put
all of you I still have
when you are not here.
I will roll these things into a
ball, a blinding orb, a marble
small, hard and brilliant,
set in my palm.
I will roll it from me,
up a mountainside,
into the dark sky.
It will glow there like a star.
It will perhaps remind us of love.
And you,
you will still be here.

Together, we start again
our collection.