LOVE IN EXILE

I lost my love
They tore me from her
in the fleeing crowd
Every hour I burn
Tell me again
how we were in bloom
It was a stock,
our roots entwined,
My hair grows long
Its only been months but
I've gone feral

She feels me every night
I am also by her side
She is my beloved
Her love is my skin

Every thing of pleasure
relates to you
Every child is ours
the sky too
Every tear shed is
for our separation
My sight, my sound, skin and flavor
land and beach, vendor and slave

Crazy in Venice (I was sure you'd be there)
in Rome too, I search doorways,
window blinds, run over
ancient bridges
Spurred on, hope and longing

You fed me in cherry orchards
such warm peaches
This is my tattoo
This this This!
Fight me , fight for me
Injustice is ours
to betray

My beard, my black eyes
my brow softens with sight
All I see is you
Everything hard and rough dreams
of softness in tender places
Ours in exile; we dream reunion
Blood soaked dust

I make a bird out of wood
and the bird sings of you, my love
How many times can I
speak the words, my love
They spin me around like
the first turning

Pulsing under my skin,
all my rivers flow to you
The bond,
that pass between us
turn it a
Turquoise and gold sea,
Cradle of life

We were forged of
precious metals
Generations of mortals
have worn us
around their necks
We met in canyons and riverbeds

Kurds, Macedonians, Rwandans
Chechens, Burmese, Haitians
haven't forgotten
Human cargo, human suffering
They are on foot, as we are
Searching for mother
husband Sister child

Their feet bare or maybe
they bought the shiny
shoes behind the glass,
some foreign promise
But I LOVE YOU

I love you
That means I'll
Stay here or anywhere
That means everything

These are times as
strange as the earth
has seen

Treacherous migrations
Farmers with no land
Sages with no voice
Nomads imprisoned
Our leaders have become
beggars
There is no moral shame

We fled our country
Now she is my country and
I am her history