All the years

All the years you’ve been gone

Disappear, and you are here.

You look at me with your eternal eyes

And smile your endless smile. 

Your soul is as open as the sea

And you have brought me out to sail,

The hull of me racing across the waves of you.

I know I need you and am free of you,

Both at once. I am free to need you,

My ship is strong and seaworthy; 

There is nowhere it can’t sail

Because of the here-and-gone of you.