i’m for you

i’m for you

i’m a candle in a cathedral, burning with hope.
i’m an old tale haunting a heart.
i’m the soft monsoon cloud questing for a patch of earth that will welcome his weeping.
i’m the new skin come to veil wounds.
i’m a birdsong and the setting sun.
i’m the grass growing on the wayside, unnoticed.
i’m the wind you use to form love on your lips.
i’m what fills you for a moment. sometimes more.
then you flit. making me ephemeral.
but i’m pulsing, inside you. in places you’ll never reach.
i’m for you, but never yours.