What it's like to Wander

If Only

If only I could be free
To know you, delicious
Like summer sunlight
And the Western Sea.
I want to be devouring
You in secret sometimes.

You’re afraid sometimes
Of me, of being free,
Of being worth devouring
(You would be delicious.)
I could take you to the sea,
And bathe you in sunlight.

You could be my sunlight
If you want to be. Sometimes
I wish we were on the sea,
So we could be truly free;
Our love could be delicious
I in bed with you, devouring.

You are what I’m devouring
In the warm midday sunlight,
Your bare skin glowing, delicious,
Like a glazed pastry. Sometimes
You make me yearn to be free,
Riding the waves of the sea.

I’ll venture out to the sea
If it means devouring
Every moment with you, free
To bask together in sunlight
In public for once. Sometimes
You make my life delicious.

What an understatement, delicious.
Like comparing a puddle to the sea
Like saying I love you, sometimes.
Why crumbs, I wish to be devouring
Every ounce of you, moon or sunlight
I don’t want to be alone and free.

I am your sea now, and we are Devouring
The night and the day, delicious sunlight
Reaching everywhere, not sometimes free.