I'll Be There

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found. - Thoreau

drifting here and missing there

passing through hell

up to my neck in highwater

when up is down and down is up

when love chooses you and passes by me

when a tattooed faith's ink fades

and eden vanishes

when confetti explodes

in a sneak attack

i'll find my way back

when heaven's roll is called

in a gilded city

hungry and cold

standing in the rain

echoing your name

one way or another

even if it's in my underwear

i swear

i'll be there

Author's Note

"It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains." - Thoreau