Summit

I think about the mountains we have climbed

Lines that we’ve crossed
To be closer

I think of ties that will bind

Your hands to mine

As we traverse each rocky hillside

I think about how I stood beside you

When you were feeling lost

I think about how you reassured me

Time and time again

That no amount of distance

Lessened your feelings for me

For the first time in my life I felt faith

In something I couldn’t see

That I couldn’t hold

I closed my eyes

And I clutched my chest

To feel my heart beating

To feel what it meant to be alive

And I cast my eyes to the west

And watched every sunset

With you in mind

I pictured your face in the watery reflections

Of the river I swam in with you

I heard your voice in every bird's precious song

In every cricket singing

Warming my nights with thoughts of you

And I think about the mountains I would climb

To be close to you

To bring a smile to your face

To press your body close to mine

To catch your hands when they fall from my sides

I would walk until my feet were bleeding

Until my breath was labored

And my heart was pounding

To stand atop the mountains we’d summited

And look out on all the beautiful things we’d done

I will be patient and with each rising sun

I will long for you the same

I will ache to hear you call my name

You are the only one for me

Time is not our enemy anymore 

With your fistful of flaming fire

And your hand pressed to my heart

You part

Your perfect lips

And draw breath to sweetly say

I like you so much

Every fear in me is quieted

And looking in your eyes I know

The simple and salient truth

That I would climb any mountain for you.