A Different World Could Shelter Us

I see your face from thousands of miles away and think
I could love you
Trace the sharp angles and full curves of your body, and love each equally
Smile and laugh and talk for hours, watching your dark lips move and tremor
Listen to your murmurs of dreams, whisper away the nightmares in the forgotten hours of the night
Stare into your eyes and see the space and width of the black unknown universe
The perfumed breath of the stars, the tears of the pale crescent moon
You could be my world, my one, my love
Ours could be the whole of the resplendent galaxy
No shadows would blind and sunlight would not burn
Everything and anything, a perfect sum of humanity
But not in this world