heartpumps

i want to offer a heart that can pump tears through your brown eyes
wash over deserts and dissolve salt in your wounds
leave the insides of your desolation sparkling clean
and offer trails of how to follow its path

i want arms so wide that it stretches to the circumference of the horizon
so i can hold you as you clutch your heart attacks
reflect sunrise onto your face and whisper to you:
don't be afraid to fall back on the stars and still land on the moon

i want to cram miles into my trunk and chuck it down the river
watch it absorb into the flow and sink to the earth
and maybe you will suddenly appear
bright eyed and in full patterned cardigan
ready to find cures to heart attacks
battle desolation with our lips
and search for comfort within these arms.