The Desperate Journey to Forever

I call to you from this place above
the city where we used to love
each other in a million places,
whispering from lips, and hands that touched
closed eyelids, knew each other's faces
by their lines and hollow spaces –
marks of beauty, scars of pain.  The past:
we run; it always chases.
Live for me and through me; make us last
forever, breathing in strange gasps
and choking, suffocating noises.
Hold me until this dying's passed.
Dear lover, with your thousand voices
scream my name into the night.  Your choice is
me!  It always was me, only me!
Abandon your devices.
Follow me above the surface.  Breathe,
and in your breathing find need,
hard and absolute: unbreakable.
Fall into something beautiful.  Be.
I know that you are capable
of finding me.  I'm traceable
and left paths to be followed
up this mountainside.  Don't fail me now!
Believe in us.  Remain unbowed
in face of all we're told is not allowed.
Come to me.  Follow out of
love, or need, or anything once hallowed.
In this place above it all
we'll find each other, and we'll fall.