for wanting more
than just these days –
as passion nights since passed
distant stars forbidden now
their flame –

but once before I rocked beneath
the promises they whispered
wishes they remembered
ten thousand lives before
when another I was fated
to the place beneath their mercy
and heard the stories told
before they came

knew for me
the same as they
would last beyond my journey –
would see me come
and known by other names

no different
the dark eyed girl
who played beneath their graces
named them each by someone
that she loved

held them safe
against her heart –
my favored understanding
and swore anew to keep them
past the end
whenever then the time might come
as love – again returning
to find the ways to love
would love again

the lines between
the darkest nights
when only two could twinkle –
shone beyond the canopies
into the place I lay

dreaming dreams
I shouldn’t know –
of other rivers crossing
seven silver sisters
and mysteries to spare

back the way remembered
how could I know them (sweetly)
by names I gave them leaving
to remind of me
of their love