love / certainty

I love you, your steady turbulence

the chilly warmth of your gaze

the calming way you sing gratitude,

before raging into the world,

demanding more

through certainty and paranoia,

your wanderer’s feet 

circle back to me.

of me, you are sure. 

by a miracle of mind-making,

when you doubt everything else,

reconsider, reconfigure, abandon, redo,

you return to the warm smile of my love, 

delighted.

and you, my modern cowboy,

my elusive forest creature

my electric raging storm

you push me to widen my eyes

to look bigger, walk farther.

holding your hand, I step closer

to the way I envision myself,

sure of, simply, you.