River

I seek for you 

the way a river 

seeks the bay,

the open-airy ocean.

You pull me down 

to join you:

to mingle the water 

of our bodies.

But even as I reach you,

as I taste and touch your 

salted flesh-

the signs of life in you-

I'm ripped away 

by the depth of the sky.

The lonely sky,

the endless-empty

void.