Miles - a poem

It's been a while since I've posted a poem on here. The one below is one I wrote last week after listening to Gavin DeGraw's song "Best I Ever Had." I love this song; it fills me with a hopeful energy and makes me want to dance. In so many ways I feel the best I've ever felt - so full of love and happiness and determination. Those feelings inspired this poem.

Miles

It sends me spinning, this sensation

Sipping sunshine off your lips

Like climbing until the city is tiny,

Dizzying beneath miles of tangerine sky

We fall into our lucky numbers,

Water colored into one another

You, forest green, sturdy and beautiful

My topography, my beginning and end

Me, nightfall blue, wild and melancholy

Your songbird, your last exception

The medication tumbles through me

But it is your palms, callused with music,

That stop the panic and staunch my past

Every morning nestled in our open spaces

Waking with sleep-soft eyes

Into an instantaneous embrace

Then, stumbling along the coast,

Drenched in summer’s ending

And freckled from our heat

We run for miles

And miles...