if you will ever think 

that regret is bitter tears to me

for all the days that passed

without your kiss

don't 

when you have touched me

in places so deep

I did not dare to visit

until you were by my side

caressing those dark corners

where you have left

the scent of light

lingering like cologne 

I breathe and breathe again

with wonder how my own skin

could smell so foreign

yet more like home

familiar as the place

where I can now belong

and while you have felt

you've not been here

I have known it so differently than that

because if you 

had never kissed me

how is it I could taste you

on my lips each time I come

to speak these words

and if you've never touched me

how can all these colours rise

from the seeds you planted

to grow inside my heart

if not for you then who

then who slipped in 

while I was dreaming

to place these stars inside my sky

and how is it I so often find you

when you've said 

that you were gone

but here you are 

as the scent of stars

and the light that I can taste

so that I don't need to wait

because so much of you

still lingers here 

as what I hold each day