I can’t stop the mist in your eyes
Or that mysterious fog
But I’m always beside you
The fire in my lamp never fades
At times a haze hovers in our vision
but we feel our hands entwined
as we hold the other’s with one and reach forward with the other
even stepping in pace we stub our toes on the way
The misstep bites my lip and swallows your tongue
But it only wounds the flesh
Our devotion flows deeper than blood
With steady saline that cleanses the body through soul
When I stub your toe or you step on mine
Your mercy spills
And my kindness pours
To maintain a pure heart for two
Linked hand in hand, one fall pulls two
Though one may hit and cushion the fall
The caught one can pull back up
braced to raise our chins while locked at the jaws
You can tell I’m thinking by a mere gaze
you know the look and you know the depth
your eyes peer into mine, but you wait to dive
I come back up, and we take an invited swim
As we stare into the colored pools we know so well
We smile at the discoveries we make in a familiar home
The corners turn up, and the cheeks lift to open
A welcoming joy where happiness grows
Even when the tears wash the happiness
They land on joyful lips that will dam the sorrow
It too dries and passes, to be filled again
A slow, soft kiss leads back to a warm embrace