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Without you

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Without you

by

Charlotte Ann Noble

And who knows how many lives I have lived?
While time changes hands
amid swirling sands
that abrade and sear my eyes
Beneath the desert sun
the burning shifting like a tide
an aching thirst
I'd found you in days past-my Nile
an endless flow
of cool water on my tongue
Ramses anger roused
my beloved torn from my grasp
but my soul, one with yours, cannot find peace
and I wander until time grants reprieve
Anubis never touched my body
I pass to the next
Unbound

Who knows how many dawns I’ve seen?
Fog lain camp in cold and dreary fields
Cool cloth on fevered brows
cries of mother, angel, beloved
wounded souls and endless tending
from sunrise till sunset toil
offering whispers of hope where there’s none
Then hazel eyes, furrowed brow
We meet again, but mortal, love
night and day I tend to no avail
and you slip through my hands like smoke
You are gone, and I remain
With no linen cloth to shield my eyes
I drift to the next
Heart low

Who knows how many nights I’ve yearned?
with lapping waves upon the rocks
and fields of thistle stretched yon
while the smell of moss; the hills and lochs
sounds of mourning pipes fill my mind
Wandering ship brought by the tide
The captain, strong and sure
His eyes, I’d caught
my faces, seen not
as I watched, the stern slipped away
My cheeks bathed in tears,
pull the cloak close to hide my eyes
Fate so cruel, that I should know you
and yet make this journey alone
So no tartan to lie, woolen and warm
and no heather to weave round my brow
Gird patience to my chest
I go on to the next
Unfulfilled
Who knows how many beats of my heart
echoed down the stretches of time-
Only for you
Find ourselves here again
This time my lips have felt the joy of you
And my limbs like ivy quest to bind you nearer
My eyes can bear to look on nothing else
Save your face
How long I have searched to find you again
And those times, like a mist, you slipped away
Full revealed, I’ll not let you go
Fate must change for she cannot be so cruel
And I shall not fade away without a fight

And who knows how many lives we’ve lived?
Full of wonder at the structures of the Gods
Binding heaven and the stars
to the lochs and sands and waves
like one precious port of living
called our home

Stay with me, my love
I cannot bear to take another step without you
My lust for life, I’ve found
is tied within your boundless heart
And I shall not live another life
without you near me