The Midnight’s Dress

I want to see you in the midnight’s dress
Alabaster elbows and satin shoulders 
Open for my interpretation;
To gaze and wonder at the sea green veins
Charting their course
From your heart to mine.

I slept early last night
Holding onto this thought; 
The effervescence of time,
Of how our memories drag on
Centuries before we met
Like a trail
Running through the forever forests
Of passing people and people passing
Like shadows on a summer road.

You belong to my mind
At the beginning of my dreams 
And the end of it
An epiphany born of my eyelashes 
An immortal thirst
A fleeting fulfilment
That loves to tear me apart
Only to make me whole
My design is your destiny 
And your smile, my soul.

You look like an ocean in disguise
Laughing somewhere between 
My heart and the horizon
With a storm in your chest
And sunset around your waist
Wherefore I set sail
Alone with an oar
Parting bubbles and blossoms 
To touch your darkening depths
Beneath white waves,
And now I am drowning 
In your purple pulse
Safe under
The midnight’s dress
And my hands they are coloured bright 
In the light of your enraptured face