On borrowed steps of distant stars

Sometimes all we want to do is get back

 

 

On borrowed steps of distant stars

 

 

Of broken branch and multi-colored stone façade

the pathway steals my outward glance

Winding through the cottage hills

like kite string freed by a strong wind, it spills

Patterns shadow in abstract array

through barbed wire and solid steel

barricades, creating menacing shapes,

criss-crossing narrow wheel ruts of long ago

 

“I tug my trousers in defiance and set my pace”

 

Obstacles, of stead and stood,

branded in a wilting wood…

directions carved to empty me of all I know as good

 

Within my chest sits a living compass,

beating my quest in a never ending melody,

sweet as creamed corn pie and pointing

towards the sun, which sits before me

two hills above the horizon on this new day

Temptation beckons over my right shoulder,

whistling in the breeze of delicious

offerings, and I do hunger…

 

“Still I stand firm of my journey back to your love”

 

Take your glow of nectarines

Cool refreshing summer streams

For I shan’t waver, not an inch, her love calls in my dreams

 

Midday, as the solar glow finds my shoulders red

and sweat clings like life in dampened conclusions,

blisters form bringing the pain of decisions made before…

and I would have it no other way…for this I deserve

Mountains faced of jagged stone break my crawl,

rubble sweeps my feet, as my knees bleed,

thirst speaks in the language of a long feared enemy…

yet I do not listen…

 

“No challenge shall be placed that will keep me from my return to you”

 

State your case in hammered stone

Tear my skin of broken bone

No tethered vines of loneliness shall sway me from my home

 

 

My shadow now waits before me, long and slender,

molded by dried weathered foot prints…my foot prints,

heading a direction opposite my heart

Many years old yet still their outline remains as a warning…

When I see it, the lilac arbor, scented in old desires and

new in life, encasing a glow, melodies of  gold finch sing

as my eyes find your smile, an extended hand, a soft touch

I have found my way home…

 

“My sweet love, this heart begs forgiveness and longs you eternally”

 

Mistakes I’ve made, my journey far

on borrowed steps of distant stars

my every waking dream desires to be right where you are

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

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[Sami Khalil]

"as my eyes find your smile, an extended hand, a soft touch

I have found my way home…



“My sweet love, this heart begs forgiveness and longs you eternally”



Mistakes I’ve made, my journey far

on borrowed steps of distant stars

my every waking dream desires to be right where you are"
The ending summed up all the hopes and desires of love and forgivenss to start anew and look towards the stars for guidance. A very deep write and thank you for sharing this one...:)

[Jack...]

Thank you so much my dear friend. I appreciate you.

[Sami Khalil]

My pleasure...:)