I would walk the distance to be with you. I would cross calm, rocking oceans, break
green plains vibrant. No. I would wander dark forests, traverse sheer rock faces of mountains,
pace along perilous old wooden bridges, hold tight to the frayed ropes. I would race against
the cold winds, curl into the abandoned halls of old fortresses, listen alone in the dark for
an echo, and rise along the battered broken battlements waiting, silhouette against the
dark pines alongside the tattered flags for the sunrise. I would travel down, carry my body into
the valleys we once knew, the curves, the crasses of earth that remind me of you. Travel towns and
cities searching through crowded markets, silvery courts, dark alleyways, and places only people we
hear about would know. I would sail out against the sea, against the beckoning shore, break the
lines that hold me here, break the lines that beg for more, and wait for your voice. Wait for
you to tell me it's okay, it's time to touch, to feel the distance between your fingertips and
mine, to feel your hands pull me towards you, to feel your lips and the growing distance between
them. Wait for you to show me the curves of your neck, your collarbone, your breasts, the bumps
there, around the centre, the tips, the texture of them and closer now, the circumference of your
navel, the way down to your thighs and the way they part, and the place between them. And your
eyes would meet mine and you would tell me to, or would you? Would you make me wait? Wait and walk
and cross this world again, this stage, this thick city concrete, for another day, another year, to
touch, to feel the warmth of your breaths, of your lips, to feel it sink into my skin and fall further
down and down and drown out all thought. Go deeper and deeper and deeper until it detonates. You have
no idea how I've longed for you, no idea of my ache for you. I've listened to you fallen for a
lifetime and I'll wait a lifetime longer to be with you. I promise not sand, nor sprawl,
nor sea would stop me from loving you. If only you asked me to.