The Ties That Bind

I, in solitude of thought remarked
A change in course to once I harked
It swiftly bade me to embark
In search of ties that bind

This faded house I'd built alone
Fortified inside the stone
I could not suffice to call a home
In search of ties that bind

I gazed upon the open door
To take a deepened breath before
A house I'd never see once more
In search of ties that bind

Trekking between trees of jade
Until the sun's course had made
To place me in their azure shade
In search of ties that bind

The mountain laid me bare to test
Its fissures' peaks against my best
And still I plowed unto its crest
In search of ties that bind

Then rock gave way to desert sand
The sirocco through barren lands
Searing heat; though still I'd stand
In search of ties that bind

Driven into fall of night
A thought so loud it bore with fright
Had I forever lost my light?
In search of ties that bind

The life I'd known was not enough
To even trace the kind of love
That pulled me by the stars above
In search of ties that bind

Upon the beach, I'd rest my head
To wash away amongst the dead
Why had I been so strangely led
In search of ties that bind?

And then the softest voice in kind
Pulled me towards as if through time
To meet that death with fierce decline
In search of ties that bind

From that very journey's start,
before the house from once embarked
Lied a still and beating heart
In search of ties that bind

Though all that time I'd felt alone
In that house I'd built of stone
A lasting friendship I'd be shown
In search of ties that bind

Weary-eyed, I'd never knew
Through every battle she held true
For she was fighting with me too
In search of ties that bind

Darkness fleeing morning's light
Visage of the day so bright
Forever banished fear of night
In search of ties that bind

The path upon the light once shown
Revealed to me in celestial tone
Seeds already long-been sewn
In search of ties that bind

In its time, and in its place
A collision in both time and space
In uncontested states of grace
I'd found the ties that bind.

Never would I fear once more
The darkness that once swept the shore
For light of love I'd now implore
Upon the ties that bind.

(For my dear, wonderful, beautiful friend who has been more important to me than she will ever realize. You've forever changed my life, and I don't know what I'd do without you.)