The One

She is a lioness

Bathed in the night

Wrapped in a black sun

She smiles like a promise

And laughs like tomorrow

Might never come.

She has the strength of years

Of freedom

She stands with the grace

Of centuries of fight

And she speaks with the voices

Of the thousands lost at sea

She really sees me

Her eyes set deep in onyx

She keeps me floating

When I’m drowning in feelings

Of terror and loathing

She pulls me up with her

Into the clouds

And we lay among giants

Wanting for nothing

She is breath to me

And I take her in and let her go

To see how far she’ll fly

Before she comes back

To tell me about the journey