…in each other

My beloved, I can hear you calling to me from ancient times
candles burning all the way
carving a path of light that I might find you
no matter where I have strayed, you have always been my love
I have caught your dreams and you have captured mine
as they have come cascading down to you
the flames of love are still burning, like a funeral pyre
turning the last of our old selves to ashes
now all that remains, deeply buried amongst the embers of our past
is you, my beloved and me, both forever lost
in the abyss of each other’s heart, both forever drifting
in fathomless depths that will endure eternally
© Ann Bagnall