If you upon
weary need rest
here you will 
find awaiting you 
always a place 
next to my
hearth upon which 
to warm whenever 
and a place 
to safely sleep 
and upon waking 
food to eat
and someone who 
will listen to 
your stories of
travel triumph treasure
and yes even 
your own tragedies 

If I wanted 
you to disappear 
I would’ve made 
you a genie
one upon which 
to happily wish
and then watch
but not genie
did I make 
but rather man
made full of 
hope and dream 
of playful desire
and even despair 
plump with humility 
humanity and humor 
my own whom
never a whomever 
so wherever you 
have gone come 
back to me 
my favorite friend 
your fellow friend 
is awaiting you 

Silence welcome 
except for 
the hanging 
absent kind
the kind 
where presence 
lingers like 
a shadow 
saying nothing 
this causes
my mind 
to randomly 
race to 
run faster 
to each
every single 
spoken thing 
wondering was
it I
who struck 
the match
making this 
humid absence 
go boom

And now 
mountains shimmer 
like rainbow 
trout swimming 
slowly upstream 
purple then 
orange and 
finally white 
as quiet
sun rises 
and tall
buildings like 
daffodils turn 
towards it
basking in 
the light 
of early 
morning sun 

I imagine 
you as
mountain me
as explorer
I enjoy 
discovering you 
your valleys 
and rainforests 
the peaks
of shoulders 
and the 
shallow hips
the hills 
of chest
and oh
the deepest 
of dark 
pools eyes 
every day
as sun
does rise 
and days 
do set
I paint 
my trails 
of you 
in mind