can i write on your face?

At the Bend

softcollapse:

I look for you my curl of sleep
my breathing wave on the night shore
my star in the fog of morning

I call to you under my breath
I whisper to you through the hours
all your names my ear of shadow
I think you can always hear me

I wait for you my promised day
my time again my homecoming
my being where you wait for me
I think of you always waiting 


M.S. Merwin