We’ll sit together, child
Should God give us time
To ask the Eastern light,
“Where have you been all these hours?”
To watch the Western sky
Blush on its behalf
We’ll struggle no more, child
Please God, give us time
With the why of why not
About the words we can’t use
‘less they begin and end
With the loveliest shade of love
“I Love You,” conceived
In the approaching twilight
Of the longest day
Nearly all I beheld seemed as an exhibit
You looked like proof to my skeptic’s eye
The evidence for hope
The verdict guilty of love
Do you daydream of Coffee
When it is night
Too late in the night
Imprudently so?
Do you long for Daylight
For earlier Light
That Caffeine’s first kiss come soon
I do
I’ll wonder to infinity
Were angels tending to me
As I learned to tell time
All the minutes of it
Goodbye
He may say of me
I have her smile and her eyes
And know he has mine
Less beautiful
These days
You mustn’t fault me
For looking downward
And inward frequently
To reflect with abandon
On eternity
Without you
These days
Less beautiful
Whether ink or lead
Or in aerosoled hue
I own thee, my friend
Placed my mark upon you
It’s your fault, inspirer
You’ve caused my daydream
Your borderless pages
From which you Love-scream
Never stop speaking
Such fanciful truth
I fight with you, write with you
Together we sleuth
(Original Thought Credit:
“Books make excellent companions.”
-James Howe)
Will we try and strive
Will the wind bend backwards
To tell you of the point
What you know
As plain and keen
As the nose on your face
To love this life
And if I cannot
What then will I become…what?
Whisper, “let me go.”
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