How I have missed you!

Adrift on still waters, eyelids heavy
and too tired to see what lands were left to be found,
I floundered, forgetting you were
right here
in the invisible world where,
click-click-click,
side by side we navigate the moonless nights.

So here we are again
sailing twin ghost ships and singing drinking songs…
having learned it is better to sing loud
than not at all, and knowing at last
our thirst can never be quenched
by drink or dive or dare,
but must be sated with a tip of the hat
to the spirit-adventurers within.
Alone together, together alone, we have
explored worlds together, traveling 
through eons that elude me in memory
but roar like an angry ocean
in the deep of my soul.

You race around inside me
like a stowaway playing hide and seek
so wanting to be found.
But you know you’ve been found already
and will be found again. It’s the being found
your crusty explorer’s heart depends upon.
And I depend on knowing there will be joy,
for you will be found,
and in that moment land and sea
and heaven and earth shall coalesce
into perfection, that sweet seed of life 
as clear as the dreams
you live to tell.

Where shall we go now?
Deeper into mystery? Further out to sea?
Or to the bay you showed me – that hidden
cove of ecstasy? Perhaps straight on, full-speed
to truth that is our mission, blowing our foghorns
and raising high our color of infinity?
Sail on, then. Let us see where
love will lead us.