Pocahontas

Savage!
The woods whispered it
All the elms alight
I called down the water
Sent my breath into the goldenrod
So that when your hand brushed it
Once upon the evening field
You'd put fingers to my lips
If I speak a word now
It will vanish
So I'll leave pieces of soul
For you to find
On the riverbank
Swathed in the trail of starlight
I found you when all the world was dust and empty
The last oasis to bless your Pisces
I would drown in you, if I could
Great swells of ocean, you and me
The same
I would never cry for shore or for aid
Only lay in the depths of your arms forever
Don't hoist the sails when you float past
Look up for a glimpse of me in the hemlock
Swaying, your weeping ghost
Drunk from your love and your leaving
How can you fill a thing and then empty it?
Swell my soul with the North Wind and the Indian Summer of your eyes
Only to take my very life
Lungs heaving for you and finding nothing
Only the absence of my every longing
Come back, come back
I and the trees have been waiting so long for you
Praying your name
Falling to the earth again and again
Thunderclouds bursting free overhead
Does the rain go to you like I ask it to?
Does it land on your eyelids and shoulders
With the memory of me?
Savage!
I whispered it, broken and breaking
Come back, come back
To the meadow where I've been waiting
So long, so long
Asking the clouds if they've seen you
My beautiful saint
Come back