Once More (For Lm)
Night brings us close unwrapping naked bodies
Of old conversation left hanging in the window
Of an empty house
This house had no tenant so long time now
You laughing from stern to bow
Your wine glass amazing pirouettes
I set to sea
But could not get pass pushing waves
It needed more than canoe to follow you
So we set sail for different poles of failure
And sometimes we washed up in the same world
New York or Fort Lauderdale, beachcomber and driftwood
Have so much pleasure in each other's hand
That was a lot of years to forget, childhood turned gray
In each barren aggregate of minutes
And love, well what was it but living, breathing clay.
We drift to and from now with the tides of conversation
Laughing and crying some is good
But I will keep the regrets unseen, what am I to do
With things that look back at me, dissecting what I should have been
My life only amounted to this after you left
Shall we dance again?
The Bee Gees still sputter in my veins
Yes there was somewhat of a life
In the silence of our praise, and we covet each other
Because we did not belong together
Although we could not keep apart
Poems are the only children I give birth
So lonely, lonely the everlasting earth
Now I must face this
Your giving up of you to the empty world of me
Dear God, keep the thorn birds away
Life is brittle, brittle as clay
If the vase is broken now, the flowers withered
Will weep forever, for there will be no coming
Again of Spring, Summer, or Autumn
I know the callousness of the weather
Nothing freezes the agony of lost forever
Yet I from a state of exploratory joy
Wash my tears with lemon rain.
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