Dual Points

"Dual Points"

Below a moonlit sky 

my eyes slowly close 

as I inhale as much cool air 

as my lungs can hold,

Keeping it for a moment 

until my heart beats 

through my chest 

and my blood surges 

through my essence,

I find I can only see you 

in the black 

behind my eyelids,

I can only feel you 

and your soul 

inside my beating heart,

The world falls away 

and a surging sense of purpose 

fills my soul,

Let me carry you 

when all is too heavy,

Let me show you 

the persistence of hope 

when everything feels too bleak,

I know how to look 

into your eyes 

and see your soul,

I can exist with you 

when 

the tinge of pain 

on silent lonely nights 

glides in

and the world has left you 

with all 

the echoes of thought,

I can hold you 

and brush away the silence 

and say I love you,

I need you,

I can find you 

among the existential starways 

of billions of glimmering points of light,

   within 

the spectrum of infinite colors 

of the cosmos,

I can find your shimmering existence 

as your soul pulls mine,

I can feel you now 

below a moonlit sky 

as the air of the night 

finally releases from my being

and my eyes open

showing you

my glimmering points of light

as they shine back my soul

to yours.

-Armando Torres