These are the words
that I will use
to help you.
Lend my thoughts
like I might
lend a hand.
Thinking of
the way you love
so well, you
deserve my best attempts
to understand.
I am just
a temporary thing here.
I am not
the think kept in your mind.
I’ll do what I can
to separate you
from the world
you’ve tried to leave behind.
I’ll climb every ladder
just before you,
testing every rung
as I ascend.
Follow me
in knowledge of your safety,
knowing I am more
than just a friend.
Nobody wants to be
up high and alone.
Believe me,
it’s a lonely road.
So many of us
find ourselves so.
Astronauts
in love with the cosmos;
and away we go.
This is the book
that I’ll use
to propel you,
far beyond your eyes
and your greatest fears.
Picture the stars
in the night sky.
Hold on tight.
We’re getting out of here.
See the stars
get brighter
as we chase them.
Watch the tangle
of galaxies
twist and stretch.
We have not
even left our places,
or our bodies, yet.
Up here,
there is no time,
not as we knew it,
in the place we find
ourselves in,
but we can go
outside.
Follow me,
up
into our inside,
another state of mind.
Up
into the wilderness
in between starlight.
Here we go,
hold on tight.
HG – 2018
