Rediscovery

I want to come home.

I want to come home to you.

I want to rediscover you.

Explore you like uncharted territory.

Like waters I have never sailed before.

Leave behind this fight and deprivations.

I would wander through your secrets.

Walk my fingers across your savanna.

Breathe you in like the spices in the old spice markets.

Trek your streets and let you all in.

Search for treasure in your smile and glance.

I want you to look at me.

The way you did so long ago, before all this.

Like I had meaning and worth.

I want to fall in love with you again.

Like seeing the sunrise from the highest peak.

But now, like for the first time with new eyes, but the same heart.

I want to stand in awe of you.

Meander through the river of our lives with you.

I want to hear your voice like the rain falling on the desert.

I crave it more than the sands crave the lost ancient oceans.

I want to find a new path to your heart.

The old one I took as a callow youth.

I want to love you now as a learned man.

With a drop of maturity and some wear.

And from out this jungle I would reclaim your heart.

And there I will find you, yet untamed.