Let Me

Let me 
Write leading lines of poetry for you to follow
Tell stories that map the shape of a life for you to drag your finger along
Lay down relief lines that loop and dance in the shape of words

Let me expound through exposition about
The glory of the light and the shadow 
Playing tag across the ground on a late summer day

Let me create a charcuterie board
Where you may sample experiences
Bitter rejection
Sweet elation
Effervescent joy
Bilious sorrow
Buttery new love
Spicy lust

Let me fold words like origami 
Creating complex and beautiful things
Out of the simplest pieces 
Strung together in a garland
Every angle leading to an experience
Every plane representing a feeling

Let me be a mirror
That you may recognize
Something familiar in my lines
So that you know that you are not alone
In the experience that is living
But that we walk in parallel 
Submerged in this infinite sea of stars

-gws