Come away with me to the island tonight, <br />talk with me at water's edge. <br />Listen soft, the words I speak, <br />they leap from my heart's ledge. <br /> <br />Roll up your pants and kick off your shoes, <br />let me bathe you wandering feet. <br />My inward song pours over you, <br />oiled liquid, salted sweet. <br /> <br />My searching hands, two caged birds, <br />they flutter, unable to soar. <br />Hold them safe inside your palms, <br />reveal to them the open door. <br /> <br />Brush back now the veil from my eyes, <br />that I may fully see your light. <br />Hold me in your arms, my love, <br />and touch me deep this night. <br /> <br />What stars above the parting trees, <br />that chance to glance the ground. <br />They scoop up armfuls of our bliss, <br />and long to tumble down. <br /> <br />Let me climb behind your smile, <br />to swim your ocean blues. <br />And when again I come ashore, <br />taste dripping salt and milky hues. <br /> <br />Inside my mouth, beneath my tongue, <br />lay rounded, smooth and gleaming. <br />The silver pearl of your depths, <br />your heart and private dreaming. <br /> <br />Will you come and take it back, <br />from inside my naked hollow? <br />Or grant me this, your succulance, <br />to savour and to swallow? <br /> <br />Come now darling and dance with me, <br />in this, our Sanctuary. <br />And kiss the utterance from my lips <br />that falls kicking and contrary.<br /><br />Tara Crown<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sanctuary-3/
