homesick

Cold concrete cages me, keeps me far away
This frigid, unfeeling
Void beneath the floor
Tells me I am alone.
I am not.
The spaces you fill, the places you fit
Hold their shape for you…
Empty for a time, yet warm, remembering

The moon, drawn to where she lies by stars
Drives me deeper…
Instinctively…
Merging, converging
Craving contact,
Weightless immersion
If only with the air you breathe
Or skin cells sloughed in sleep

In absence, I am alien, unsettled…
Homesick, hungry
Missing limb or organ…
As if my treasure were misplaced.
Minutes crawling, creeping
I should be sleeping…
Darkness haunts the heavens and my heart
Waiting for light to return