Indifferent

Be fifteen
That in-between
And do not care
What snarled your hair
The where your walk
Or when

Be then fifty
That year of glee
And reminisce
What life’s half-kiss
The who your smile
Or why

none: a haiku

As untethered luft
Not a single soul’s compass
No heart light left on

One day
You’ll slink your hand across my rib cage
Grab ‘hold of my strength and sigh
You’ll make this all right
One day

In your Due North Sky
Far more stars than I knew why
I saw galaxies

The future I see
Blue-green against the silver
The gratitude years

The surface captured
The all that they seem to see
I behold your deep

Dear John, I love you
for proposing our hearts hear
the quiet, the roar.

The loon’s skidding feet
across glassy still tables
for to glacier meet.

The death then new life
when lightning then lumber clashed
you championed this.

Be still would this land
and her creatures take her hand
in fellowship one.

For to find yourself
Untether and free yourself
Let go -be yourself

Oh -the open air!
Did you taste my tears trailing
to my happy heart?

seek
out the blue
sky
love

dream
with no fear
heart
once

know
time will prove
truth
just