All I Want

After Homecoming

I love how everything seems to

Cascade into itself here. So that you

Are wanting, but never wanting too

Much, and you are laughing but still

Able to hold a face of seriousness

And you are breaking, breaking so

Much, but still able to gather

Up every piece of you before it is

Swallowed up by this world, you never

Forget to say cheese before the

Shutter clicks. And here you love, you

Love and do it so gently, so openly, I

Wonder if you are not afraid of hurt or 

Regret, or leaving or receding waves,

Or blue skies bleeding their colour

Away into grey and water. And I know,

That there is an inch of me, like you,

Scattered in some far off corner of

This world. I will search. I will find.