branches in your way

i saw the stars in this black
sky. i saw your face your eyes
looked through
me my guts spilling, pleading
to be with that
feeling you have around you
you're soft like warm
water filling me, filling up
in that black sky
i found you
washing my face in the sand
washing ocean over rocks over
my skin i am sleeping
i am dreaming you illusive you
are barely touchable
not quite awake the hair on your arm
is blonde i should think bleached by
the sun are you so illuminated, bright
and painted amber i see you
before i drift away

break me like branches in your way my bones could be your bones but
i am not you
are walking past me my shoulder
edging past yours i am weaving away
from you a cloth spun out of the clouds,
i am silver so simply silver you could
be golden but you are just so many
grains of sand i cannot grasp, i cannot
grasp- i am branches in your way