(Barbados )

 

If I could run away

it would be

to a place like this

a coral sea

where fishermen raise

their nightly nets

where you and I would

wake to the morning sun

dark skin and light

a tangle of limbs.

 

If I could stop the world

get off where I please

it would be at a place like this

where the sand is perfectly round

and the angel fish feed

on live coral reef

where the yachts anchor nightly

under a Venus sky

and my lover lies sleeping

by my side

 

 

If I could come back

as a sand crab burrowing

next to turtles eggs

carrying away my lover’s nest

watching the tidal moon nightly set

or a dolphin following boats

across the bay

blowing the sunlight

riding the waves

watching my dolphin children play.

 

If I could I surely would.