I Want to Do with You What Spring does to the Cherry Trees - Pablo Neruda

I want to be the soil,

the warmth,

the sun on your cocoon.

Not just someone who gives,

but someone you can grow inside.

As a child,

night was for sleep.

Anything at night felt like an adventure.

Anything beside you was adventure.

I used to think I just loved books, but

I loved holding something,

that made me feel less alone.

That’s how I feel holding you.

Like holding the sounds of my first Ipod.

and skullcandy ear buds

“Questions of science,

science and progress,

could not speak as loud as my heart.”

—Coldplay, The Scientist

We were like metals.

heated and welded together

It makes sense,

the earth’s core is molten.

Because you feel like my world.

I want to do with you

what Shakespeare did with paper,

what Mozart did with keys,

what the moon does to wolves.

And if winter comes—

may it never come—

I’ll wither with you.

-Jonathan the Poet