You may remember
A night of mist and cool sheets
By a river

His voice waiting,
holding both our hearts in your hand
as we would.

We traded my past for your wish
And no, it won’t fade in the wash;
Just as well.

There’s no one I’d rather owe:
You made it worth the while.
No La Joconda…

You are indelible, a tattoo in my soul
It won’t come off, and from you finally
I became whole.

He moved on like wind to my leaf
Gently carried wide to new horizons
I remain here.

The fire burns our tears in eyes of joy
We turn ever away from us that was
For cooler thoughts.

What remains, sought, plenished
Quiet heroes like angels graced us
In our discretion.

Perhaps our smiles will fill
A day in some summer to be,
In green grass.

Winchester Ave
11/26/16

I wish I’d asked you
All these years ago
What a useless sentiment
How can we know it
Avoiding all that blunder

And the last time
I saw her as she drifted into sleep
My mind filled with longing
My heart filled with dust.  
All our dreams torn asunder

I couldn’t leave again
So she said, “I’ll go.”
Her heart reaching
Took a piece of me along
Borne in her stark wonder.

Into the face of nature
Faith like wishes missing God
She watches over the child
Knowing all right from wrong
Ready her box of thunder

Now I wait patiently
The woman she’ll never find
Years sift like leaves in memory
Raindrops glisten listening tilted
With the answers we left behind

May, December 2019

And she rode the heavy seas
Her land and home gone, gone
****** beneath the froth as by
some great icthyotic wrong.
Sails unfurled to take the wind
she flies before a storm spurned
from psychic halcyon, but
Who knows her goal, the home
of her heart as the future pulls her on.
She vainly peers along the 'rizon
foam beading on her furrowed brow
and in her heart she hears the voice
that calls clear and warm to stay
and eschew the charms of life
in nether-weir this day.
But, nay, she gathers and bursts forth
fleet and sure, to ride the peaks
the more to find her way and
not to rest in watery pasture more.
You're on a journey, that is all
you'll heal hurt heart, a world
as round you go to find; the ****
and rime that gathers now
to hew and leave behind.

Oct. ‘13
Done! Feb 18, 2019

As i open to You
for the first time:
  Yours: feeling my way
  as never before
It’s so exciting to feel
i’m actually touching you
  And when you tell me something
  I feel your giving and want to respond
only for you-
all for you

Tentative, reaching
trembling, knowing nothing
finally, because you’ll tell me
  i needn’t question, fascinated
  devoted to your mind
You can see and feel
all i need to find
all i will find is You

I love him
I tell myself
I know that
We will be together forever
I don’t believe that
We could be separated
My thoughts tell me that
He’s the love of my life
Sometimes my heart lies and says
I could live an eternity
Without him
Like my friends say
“We’re perfect for each other”
And you can’t tell me
He’s not the one.

Now read from bottom to top.

We make love
by remembering
promises missed
hope set aside
by youth driven
down so many
wayward paths

We will always
touch one another
as we always have
no matter the roads
we tread so lonely
or whom we love
so completely.

Consolation (I changed the name)
Jan ‘19