only home when you are near.

With you by my side

  My eyes hold yours

As our bodies race

   To the shore

Holding your hand-

Toes in the sand

We look up.

Painting blues in my mind

   You brought the sun-

Soaking up the sea salt

our hair-

   laying down next

To me-

Hold our fingers to the sky

     You gently pick stars for me &

I place them in my pocket

I ask,

       “how do we get up there?

Because that’s where I want to be

With you”