Twin Souls Poem by Mark Heathcote

Let us navigate each other like stars in free fall
like ships on an ocean, never sailed before
let us pilot a course, each other's coastal shore
and drop anchor and wade amorously ashore.
Barefoot, let us taste each other's bounty,
and cleave each other open like soft sweet fruit
that has much more than pomegranate ripeness.

Let lust, sweat salt out of every passionate pore
and harpoon and reel-in net each other's souls
and when we're reluctant; let us break any forming ice-
packs and dance till the dawn light tiptoes
in through our locked, congealed eyelids
that was just about to reluctantly close yawn and say, Amen.
There is always better-fairer weather, my darling lover.

Let us circumnavigate these dark volcanic rocks
and finally, when we are truly-exhausted
let us break like the beached shells into a white shingle
and mix in the rhythms and tides
that returns to the ocean
let us linger in a pearl-oyster and after
thereon journey for an eternity locked together.