Waiting for You

Two souls, one eternal night

Waiting for You — a poem by Pemba Umoja

In a thousand nights

I could only dream of a notion

of the beauty we shared this night

two souls, two bodies,

two human wanderers upon this earth,

touching hand in hand,

heart unto heart.

With all our parts

connected

for all the time

that will ever matter

or be of consequence.

I lie now waiting for you

to feel what we have felt

in our hearts

on our skin,

in our hands,

on our bellies,

in our swirling eyes,

in the motion

of our worlds.

A poem by Pemba Umoja