ORANGE SLICES,
DRIPPING MOIST
IMAGINING,

THE TASTE OF
SUMMER UPON
YOUR LIPS,

CAPTIONS OF
QUESTIONS
IN YOUR
VOICE,,

PIECES OF
LOVE LEFT

DANGELING

IN THE
CORNER OF
YOUR EYES.

AND I  COULD
NOT BREATHE
ANY DEEPER,

SEE THE COLORS
OF THE DAY
ANY BRIGHTER,

THAN TO
SPEND THIS
MOMENT IN
THOUGHT
WITH
YOU.

AND AS
I SIT IN THE
CORNER OF
THE PARK
JUST OUTSIDE
VIEW,

IAM CERTAIN
I HAVE
TAKEN THE
FIRST
STEP TO
FOREVER

WITH YOU.

There will
always be
things in
the world
that can
only be
described as
one and
two.

faith and
love,

whispers and
intimacy,

the image of
your body
in my

bed at

night.

there will
never be
a moment

in my life

that I would

ever
not recognize
you,

and you
me.

and doubt
has always been
forever  
outside of
us
,
like stars
shining
outside
canopy clouds
of black.

this sky
will always
belong
to us.

like one
and two

never yearning,

never seeing
anything else.

it wasn't
till I first
saw you,

that I
first held
forever
in my
eyes.

a hard
choice of
reality,

a deep dive
into all
that was
unknown
to me.

it was
a hole
in my
soul
bled dry,

of doubt
and innocence.

a celestrial
rainbow across
my sight,
with only
the color
of two.

and then
the mating
to one

tonight.

You know
the ones
when you
see it  
it becomes
a carnival
ride that
you can
never
get off.

and their
name never
matters,

just the tilt
of their
head,

relationships
without
bad rhymes
or cliches,

and the touch
from their
lips across

your face
over and
over again.

like  electricity
running through
your veins
over and over
again.

rodeo smiles
it was like
the fourth of
july every
moment that
I was with
you,

in our
naked
bed
slumbering
under harvest
moons in

bloom..

I can
still feel
you in
my bones,

as if
the marrow
of my
bones is
running
dry.

I can
still hear


the whispers
of my heart
calling
to you.

from twenty
years before.

it is
still the
sent of
you in
the air
whenever
it is a
rainy day,

the brings
you back
to  me.

and stil
I am none
the wiser
for missing
you.

and the
stars are
a few
shades less
now that
I stand
looking
up  at
them without
you.

did I
tell you
that I can
still feel
you in
my bones?

but I am
sure of all
the certainties
of the
world,

you will
forever
know

that.

and that
feeling
will
never
release me.

nor would
I ever
want it

to.

it was
a room
that we
slept in over 40
years ago.

it was
a child
that was
born in
the great
city of
Hollywood,

and then
grew up
to be
more than
anything
or anyone
that
I could
of ever
dreamed
about.

back pocket
dreams and
broken pieces
let on
this road
that God
has blessed
my life.

a beggar,
a father,
a husband

a lover of
everything
that is you.

a moments
sigh,

as your
breath breathes.
in and
against
my chest.

we are
like sand
and shore
that have
been carved
and shaped
by one another
into this
moment over
thousand
of years.

but now
to be with
you here
tonight,

is a
testimony
that
we have
always
been together.

before time
before woman
and man.

and yet
now as you
surrender
before me
husband and
wife,

it is
certain and
true to
the stars
that nothing
in this
universe will
ever be
as great

again.