Return to you

Tail lights reflected

Ruddy on the  

Spray ridden road

Lights from above and

Metronome of wipers

Flacking back and

Forth.

I come to you as a

Lost bird 

Returns to his nest, 

Tumbled leaf to the Earth, 

A spiralling, falling

Down.

I have missed you, my love

For the shortest time apart,

I have missed you and

Now return to you.

Your wide smiling eyes,

Your dark hair draped,

Your nose, your teeth,

Your kisses.

I return through the rains

Washed across the river to beat

On the roof on the 

Road on my heart.

Washing away the doubts 

The fears and the islands that

Drift furtive and flustered

Through the moonlight.

I return, I am still

I am singing I am

Joy, for the rains

Wash me up on your

Shore.

It is quiet in the raucous

Din of the drumming,

I come home, come to you

And am freed.