ONLY YOU
by Michael Langston

Though you are only one,
Only one out of millions,
A tiny speck in the distance
Beside an unseen distant sea,
Though there are others around me
Who are so very much nearer,
There are none more important
Than you now are to me.

Now blind to all others,
I travel lost in a desert,
Seeking the cool, clear oasis
Of your soft loving hands.
On the faraway horizon,
Like shimmering green emerald,
I can see only you
Amidst the dead, sun-scorched sands.