Yearning

Yearning
Some things break me open
Some things take my breath

My eyes begin to burn
My soul draws close to death

Please don’t read and hesitate
Please don’t read and fear

I speak of high and beautiful things
That leave me breathless here

So often words are frivolous
To simply open doors

Of depths of grand emotions
The silence after wars

Sometimes I take a leap
Into the essence of the sky

I lose myself within the stars
I leave behind the why

I open my mouth and taste it
I open my mind and see

How vast how boundless majestic
Beyond the flesh so free

And in these great encounters
I long I beg I yearn

To escape from my earthly body
To touch deeper the things that I learn