I would fight this world with all I have  
to reach you

I’d dig my nails into the blue of my own sky
and rip from it
the light to lift you

I’d pull up the delicate threads
of time
and upend
this whole universe on its hinges,  
to rewrite your story

I’d tear the rings from Saturn,
from Jupiter
from Neptune,
to sew the cracks in your mind
with the sinew of star stuff

I’d drain the oceans,
the lakes
and the rivers,
to flush the anger
from where it clings like tar
along your soul
and leave you,
gasping and shivering and free

I’d smelt the iron walls
from around your heart
and forge you,
in the gold of the sun itself, anew

Just so I could turn to you
on my knees, and say
“I love you”

so you might look at me,
and say,
“I know”