Why did you bury Yesterday in such a shallow grave?
Why invest so much of your time in what no longer exists?

There you are, on your hands and knees
In the overturned dredgings of the past

Why must you insist upon exhuming the elapsed?
Constantly picking through and re-examining memories and moments

It would seem that you are looking for evidence ... of what?
*Are you hoping to find a pulse of life, among all that decay?

I watch you as you sleep
Our lovely one
~ A softly breathing angel~

But soon you will awaken
Our unending promise
Burgeoning as busy hands and feet

Eager to start the day
Our limitless potential
With curious eyes and incessant tongue

Can I tell you a secret?
You will change the world
**On your mark. Get set. Go!

As I walk through  fallen and scarcely trodden snow

My heart as heavy as my weary footsteps
Keeps company with resilient leaves and broken branches

I miss you and today I feel the steady pull of your love

Just as this winter moon stirs the sleeping bear
It stirs up in me a longing for you


The need for your physical presence
Rises up within me like the tide
With no place to fall except from my eyes

And even though you'd be the first to hush my curse

I **** mortality and I **** the fates
And I envy the other side of Heaven's gates

*For there you are ... there you are

I rolled away the stone
But you weren't there

So I waited

I waited and chiseled words of love
Knowing that they might never be read
Or their meaning understood

But still I waited

For there was need
A need to be set free

*And the night, it too waited
Keeping me company, as I  chiseled its darkness away