Your words unfold like a map
marking the journey through a single day,
made from the comfort of my chair.
You wield your vision like a weapon,
bold slashes with your pen
leave me vanquished in your mirror.

Now the room lies still,
the single pulse your hard-bound words,
taking shape the way a fence crawls across a winter field,
wielding life like a paintbrush,
your pictures more exciting
than the margins where I’ve played.

Memories dear brother will never fade
even if you have gone to your grave
Effervescent soul
To tease and dance and tickle and prance  forever and a day
I knew how to get you back even if 10 years younger
In your teenage slumber late mornings on  saturdays. Ice cubes and thunder went your way .
frog catching at Gills Pond riding in your newspaper basket on your bike to find out the next day was Christmas.  
There is no end with memories so dear as these.

I said I love you. You said with a grin . I know.

You call the Moon beautiful
but You wouldn't want Her fixed in the sky
She's beautiful because She is not always there
because She changes

Allow Her to awaken in the sacred shades
You wouldn't see in the day
the way things bend at night
how things connect when they are not being watched
the language the wind speaks when the stars are out
the raw chaos of Her beauty which appears as darkness
the challenging coldness
the tired feeling prolonged which makes You drunk
the intoxicating carelessness of being outside
You hear animals talking
but You don't know what the **** they are saying
as the trees continue to harass streetlamps to dance with them

Everything is a facsimile of death
and everything is watching You
and every minute is not the proper size
and every mile is an illusion before day breaks

And if You could give yourself
to such darkness to such chaos
without pretension or forgiveness
If You would risk any guarantee of a happy ending
for just one kiss
then You would know what it is like to love the moon

Or You are just reckless

I'd like to write you a love song
A sweet melody that says
How I feel about you
In so many tender ways
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I'd like to write you a love song
With words that touch the soul
When you listen
You will feel my love
Though the depth
You'll never know
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I'd like to write you a love song
That may cause you to shed a tear
But when I'm gone
If you ever play it
That song will bring us near
I could buy you gifts
Every single day
Send you cards
The list is long
But I don't believe
There's a better way
Than to say ( I love you )
In a song..............