Poem for My Love

How do we come to be here next to each other   
in the night
Where are the stars that show us to our love   
inevitable
Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness   
and the rain
falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh   
the black men waiting on the corner for   
a womanly mirage
I am amazed by peace
It is this possibility of you
asleep
and breathing in the quiet air

Copyright Credit: June Jordan, "Poem for My Love" from Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan. Copyright © 2005 by June Jordan.  Reprinted by permission of The June M. Jordan Literary Trust.
Source: Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (2005)