Return to Me

You tell me you were born
With an umbilical chord around
Your neck, like me,
Our faces colored October blue evening
As cold as your cheek 
When life drained from your eyes,
Hanging, surrounded by glow of fire’s light,
I recall we were side by side,
Said we’d resurrect ourselves
When the time was right.

And your soul promised to go first,
Descend from a peaceful place before
I’d follow you to this world,
When you knew it was safe,
I’d find you on a dance floor
When the only thing at stake
Was the taut pull of my string
To yours,
A longing I was within
Instead of what was contained in me,
This knowing that I imagined
Most at Christmastime,
Or when I listened to music on the beach,
My Soul knew before I did,
And spoke to me for the first time
When you returned to me.