• Bara no Sabaku
    by UC Poika


    when you look at me I see into your soul
    and I am not alone in this dusty world
    the sun no longer burns my blissful eyes
    but the nights are so long and painful they ache
    I hunger to know you in the way I am known
    to learn the songs that on your lips I’ve heard
    to walk with you arm and arm and side by side
    to share the breaths you take in every way
    when you laugh I’ll also smile, or cry I’ll sob,
    your joy I’ll feel, or pain? I’ll share that with you too,
    but should you leave I’ll mourn all the while you’re gone,
    until returning you turn Decembers into Junes
    for where you live a rare and beautiful flower grows
    for you my Darling, my Love are like the desert rose!