Lover, will you walk with me, in this land of make believe?
Tall structures tower overhead, city buildings of a collective dream.
Will you run away with me, to a place more real?
Where our hearts echo with the thunder of the storm;
And life accosts us with the earthy smell of red dust, splattered in the rain.
Lover, will this be our world? Our reality?
Won’t you come, come away with me.
I will come away with you.
To a place where our light shines unfiltered.
A place whence our voices undistorted.
A place in which our hopes and dreams carry with them everything
we need to be warm and safe and happy in ourselves.
A place where the song you sing (that only I can hear)
emerges with my offering: all of me; my self