One
G. Matthew King


	Give me your world and I will give you Paradise.  Reach out a
little farther; just an inch and watch it become a mile.  Smile and see
the world shine down upon you in glory to the stars above and candles
below.  Since when was your life your own?  Do you not know you are mine,
and I am yours?  I am in your mind's eye, for it is my own soul burning
within you.  Can you feel me, can you taste it sliding around inside your
mouth, the dirt and filth that is all my secrets?  I know yours.  When
will you travel down the path to the grave and when will you swim but a
drop in the ocean?  Sizzling, dancing on the frying pan.  Whistle and call
the wind to your side; ride it home to me.  Oh, reach out, reach out a
little farther and seize the day.  Seize my soul in your hands, holding me
close as I fall to the earth.  Crushed under the weight of myself, lifting
you high on a pedestal.  Higher and higher so you can soar among the
clouds, and I can soar with you in your heart even as I am shackled so
tightly to the soil.  Bound and ground under bootheel and hoof, to be
trodden on and cursed by the day.  Live to see another day, living
forever, and always seeking the tomorrow in which I can lift you higher
than ever before.  Singing praises and sunshine in your hair, streaming
out behind you when you run.  Ever running just out of my reach, a
taunting torment and tease of the heart.  Breaking my wings trying to fly
to you; crash once more and cry in sorrow.  Will I live my own life when I
can only see your face before me, the eyes that are always reaching into
me, leaving me bare and hollow?  You who are in my mind more than I am,
more sane and full of life and willing to take the risk on life that is
called craziness and passion and love.  Give me your heart that I may feel
again with my own.  Feel again the grass beneath my feet, the warmth of a
lover's sigh and depth in your eyes.  Oh, to be filled from hollowness, to
have everything beyond dreams in a simple touch.  That one perfect touch.
Only you have it for me, just as only I can shatter the darkness away with
a caress.  Two sides becoming one, a mirror forming a kaleidoscope of
light and sound as we know each other.  To ask who you are and knowing
from beyond that you are me and I am you and we are one.