I Love To Watch You Dance Poem by L.B. Temuco

There is silver across my eyes
Spread like a chain
I lay my face against the colour of a tree
In the midst of a thousand swans
I dance with you
I love to watch you dance
Your dark flamenco
I lay across all the damp boulders
In your soul
You announce yourself
On this strange canvas
Your eyes hang like gardens from the sky
I love to walk in your eyes
In the depths of the earth
I cannot breathe for both of us
I cannot harvest the golden braid
Around your heart
It broke free
And strange birds came instead
With my hands
I am blind
I cannot feel where you are
With my lips
I give you my blood
I remember running through wet grass
And falling
And you caught me then
Wait for me now
The day was longer when it started
We who dissolve in light
Fail to hear the silent opening
Of windows
Of the sky struck by dawn
Of floods receding
Of water
Of fish
Of silver
Of your arms burning
I lay down over my shattered heart
I cry for invisible things