Day 4 (and 5)

Day 4
when you left, he spoke only in metaphors,
when you left, he told me he was drawing maps to you,
when you left,
I wondered where his compass heart would point.
Roaming girl,
you are the wildest path through the forest.

Update: continued from Day 4

(Day 5)
when he knew you were leaving,
he confessed to faulty cartography and tried again, topographically this time.
he mapped out your mountaintops,
reset the scale to account for the distance between your heart and his
When you left,
he realized how thin the air was at this altitude.