Someone to miss

Tell me what you're escaping, my love,
Tell me with words and held hands.
Your lonely stubborn eyes are enough,
To make me believe in making plans.

But where does your soul wander tonight,
To lonesome, quiet places that I can’t go?
Teach me how to hold, to listen, to fight,
To be the man your heart yearns to know.

I’ve wandered the world far from home,
Leaving connections to rust and expire.
My heart is coded in piano and poem,
Desert snowfall, mountain mist, midnight fire.

Though your legs are toned and strong,
I’ve known far greater dark, deeper emptiness.
If you run from my words, my ravens song,
I won’t chase-
I’ll journey forward with one more person to miss.