i will come for you

and love says :
i will come for you.

when you have clawed your way to the hills,
knowing only
the open horizon was waiting,
when you are wandering blind
without even hope to feed on
i will come for you.

i will sweep in at the crossroads
and pull your cold limbs into bed.
i will take you to the temple
day after day after day,
and the sun will draw its circles
around the kiss of our bellies.

because all of you has forgotten 
the dim memory of being held
i will be the chalice of your tears,
the eye that sees your terror,
the delighted arms that welcome you
into the nights and the endless mornings.

i will pour the oldest medicine
into your ashes,
and our rapture
will rain blood into the altars of a thousand smiling gods,

until you blink one morning
and find yourself
alive.

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