Haste

If you love me,

Slide these curtains open, 

come hurried back to bed

Free the morning from my night

tell what dreams have left unsaid,

If you love me,

Speak words as warm as winter tea

Pull the blankets from your skin

Take me far from the covered years

To where I can never go again

If you love me,

Break your day of life’s glass laws,

 With hammers filled with down

Let my eyes drift your naked back

Tangled sheets like evenings gown

If you love me,

Slide these curtains open,

Come in haste back to me,

Tell what dreams have left unsaid

So I can paint my memory.