Christmas Lights on the Water

Christmas Lights on the Water

The match that lights your eyes tonight

Still glows,

So when the beams between your gaze and mine

Snap into place,

You kindle an ember in the window to my soul:

I burn a little brighter

Like the Christmas lights on the water.

We’re wrapped in night,

The chasm closed

So while I count the inches between your skin and mine,

I wonder if you sense the pounding veins

That tether my heart to you,

Because when I will those inches away

You take my hand.

Beside you I may stand strong

Yet I stand on an Achilles heel

Weakening with every step put between us and the dancing lights on the lake;

And somewhere in your quiver waits the arrow that will tear me,

But you haven’t drawn the string yet.

My dormant heart begins to hum,

So tonight I polish my highest hopes to a brilliant shine

And put them on display for you

Like the Christmas lights on the water.