Don’t Turn Away …This is for You

You are like nobody since I love you
–Pablo Neruda

You can run
And hide from me
But spaces between us
Are only physical –

There’s no distance
In the spirit.

The soul can be wounded–
Scarred by trauma,
Seared by pain…

Or, with me,
Made desolate by longing.

Don’t turn away.

In the hot sun
Let me shelter you
And my thoughts
Shade you…

Form a canopy
Of branches over you.

And in the dark night
Remember
No one else ever embraced you
Listening for your breath,

Watching stars
Through parted drapes
While you safely slept.