A Road Around The Sun

Three hundred and sixty five

Days and nights ago

You haven’t said goodbye

You have just let me go.

You kept me to yourself,

Indulging in your theft;

You kept with you my heart,

While my shadow’s left.

From there on our words

Were laid out in a script:

I was becoming yours,

And more alive, less stiff.

It wasn’t easy, no,

To melt down my arctic ice

But your life-giving glow

Embraced me in its vise.

You’ve found something else

Beneath my glittered mask,

And even when afraid,

You wouldn’t let me pass.

You’ve painted my days

With memories and scents.

You’ve waited for me

And I have come to sense.

I know how long the road

Was for the both of us,

It isn’t just abroad,

And wasn’t just days and nights.

With struggles within ourselves

It’s not three sixty five,

With growth, and pain, and faith —

It now is a whole life.

I promised that some day

I will come back to you,

And I have made my way

Right where I said I’d do.

The trick is now that this

May not be very true —

You never said goodbye,

So I’ve always been with you.