thoughts of love

Out beyond all our thoughts of love

Is a place where our bodies touch

As our dreams and longings

Connect soul to soul

Inside your eyes

I see the sun rise

On a new life for me

And suddenly the past feels

Full of unreal shadows

And ghosts

What became of my body here

All alone in the deadened place

Reaching for the phantom thing to replace

What most makes me feel

Present and real

But achingly it now

Is absent

Dropping me into the void

All alone with my thoughts

The truest part of my human being

Is only half alive

Because thoughts of love

Can never replace

The tenderness and warmth

Of human touch