A splinter of time is felt in carpet treads And your smiling question look When you know exactly what it is I want As you are always there in tails of light From ivy shining gold on Waiting trees in evening's thinning presence
As I wait now.
And from this place I watch myself And see the knots and pain so clear: They are all the meals I eat that Parents ate that all the silent unnamed Faces round this table now That were and breathed and tasted morning air, And are not.
Breathe through me.
Now feel all they meant to say.
I stroke words with mouse's arrow - But feel no easy daylight common sense, Blessed and cursed to know Elating separation from the scrabbles In shallow city seas of present Struggle to survive and breed.
And yes I know there will be more - More fresh and blue high wakening days; While earths of slow engendering wait Content to breathe alone until I Stop