This Haiku: and only Time

I’ll forever reach
To wrap Time fast in my arms
Though it flees, I’ll reach

This Haiku: I Plan To Trust

The rains burned our backs
When its promise was to soothe
I’ll still trust and touch

I love you too much.
To awaken you. Dreaming.
But it’s a school day.

Plaid felt soft then hard
Convergent then divergent
It felt near then far

This surely will be
a beautiful day. Light burst
forth. Dark could not stay.

No letters I see.
Just the breathless space where we
walk, talk and share life.

I want to dress up
And cook with too much sugar
Kitchen, indulge me

What Hell would break loose
If for a time, not the pen
But instead her hand

I know for certain
My feet are by far more swift
Than forces that be

Oh the pesky road
Upon which blessings oft’ times travel
From God’s hand to mine.

If permitted,
Would I choose
To without toil
Dance with the desires of my heart?

I say no
And have learned
Drinking with dirty knees
Of the grapes from tough terroir
Suits me well

For I
Am most grateful
And quenched
When my hands
Are perfumed with the scent
Of Heaven and Elsewhere

I know if we go
walking, the wind under our
wings will quiet us.