Igniting

my love,


this evening light you entered my room
in shadow
and I watched you dance in illumined leaves
across a cold-hearted stone
floor, you slipped through
a crack in my door
and ignited me,


and so I became a burnished beam,
brazened by that inner flame;
that scans across oceans
and skims o'er perilous seas
steady as a night
light-
O I will brave the seething storms
to guide you home.


I am your lighthouse.


Find your way back home to me-