UNTITLED II

I spilled the long awaited troubles

over a silk bedspread

wrinkled by love.

A  future rising above the horizon

of your hazel eyes.

You have warmed me on many a winters night

and brightened my room

with your summer smile.

A compendium of memories

on an antique tureen

that pleasure

painted with your eye shadow.

I think of you dearly

as you

cast a shadow on my mirror

left behind in a closed room.

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I see you in the distance

as

I stare at something beautiful

playing

in nature's backyard.

Tunnel

I see the light

but cannot reach it.

I see the green pasture

but cannot smell it.

I feel the freedom

but cannot unlock the door.

I want to be me again

but I fail to recognize who I am.

You have helped me

but I cannot feel any success.

You hold out hope for me

but I am slowly failing.

Help me now

so I can touch the light

and

smell the pasture.

12.15.2012 – for a special boy

Observation

I see you in the distance

as

I stare at something beautiful

playing

in nature's backyard.

sometime in 1970

SISTER LOST

A daydream,

faster than mornings first light beam.

I

lost my sister at birth's hand,

a

long awaited, lonely

monastic love.

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Parchment

Words,

written on ancient parchment;

lay frozen

in my inner thoughts.

I let your letter

float

among the icebergs

in a water

wasteland.

Every word you say today

becomes

an echo of tomorrow.

7.23.1972