For the Greatest Thing

Original Image by myungho lee from Pixabay

For the greatest thing

I’ve read all the books with utmost diligence

With earnest sincerity

Pairs of people

Skin wrinkled across sun kissed days

Bodies becoming entangled yarns through song

The words jumped from the pages

Filling up eyes and heart,

Soaking them up, like rain to soil

Making them damp,

Then too wet, marking another year of lost harvest

They are weary of waiting

For that feeling

…what about me?

I’ve become the hazy clouds

Drifting through vivid blue backdrop

Shorter than few breaths of midsummer afternoon

Melting into water then rerising to cloud

In search of the greatest thing

…what about me?

I’ve practiced

With the greatest patience

To molt my soul with another

To soak myself up

In the essence of another

I’m tired of waiting

A kiss goodbye

Wishes of floating dandelion seeds

I’ve gone, searching for the greatest thing

That will complete me

…what about us?