will they be able to
keep up with us
the reservoir we've
been holding back
will release and the
ensuing flood will
wash away all the waiting
our life will be almost
instantaneously how
we've always dreamt it
nothing will be the same
for us once we leave this moment
how long to savor the past
or surrender to the future
here in this most powerful present
when the present becomes
the memory of our conversations
I'll be with you
in the moment our smiles
realize all of our past projections
I'll be with you
how many times we've constructed
our future interactions
how many times have we
remembered what our destiny will be
in all the dreams that bleed
into our everyday lives
I'll be with you
when we've played through
our last searching scenario
I am with you
I arrive at the restaurant
my heart overrides my nerves
as my mind is perplexed
about how calm I am
strange to be a party of one
as I've never gone out
to eat by myself, alone
that'll soon be remedied
the hostess leads me
into the dining room
and seats me with a menu
this list of food and drinks
will serve as my companion
but merely for the moment
for even as I sit down I feel
a magnetic force knocking
at my accelerating pulse
I resist for as long as I can
but then give in to the impulse
I glance up to find the most
intense gaze fixated on me
at that moment everything
else fades from reality
as the ravenous connection
pulls at the very souls
of the two engaged in this
just one thousand
three hundred sixty seven
of those twenty-four hours
rinse and repeat
the waking and sleep
for the next one hundred
and ninety five weeks
but that is the question
what to do with all the
forty four moons
passing between us
so many to juggle
on the path to you
some are just to wade through
while others will be
down right shit
but in the thirty two
thousand seven hundred
and eighty eight hours
we will live our lives
until it becomes our life
and I wish you the best one
for the next three years
eight months and
twenty eight days
he looks down upon
the passing seasons
from his position
in the tower five up
his chamber is built
in the nervous system
where brains both
come and leave
the tower five up
is situated in a large
expanse of verdant green
and he looks up to
watch the giant dragonflies
zoom by holding lives
in their hands
the five up in the tower
is not the only five up
he holds dear to him
five up from his own day
he has climbed
on the ladder of moons
to find the other
he has called to
and has heard called
from the tower five up
to raptor wings and beyond
you ask me
to love myself
through you
to use you as
a mirror
and undress
for me to look
at the flowing
curves running
up and down my
torso and legs
to see the varied
hues of pigment
that has come from
generations of lovers
entwining their genes
to give me this flesh
you ask me to look
at the constellations
scattered across my skin
stars that help you
navigate to my heart
you ask me to look
at the scars that glimmer
reflecting those past
lessons learned hard
in this you light a candle
to help guide me
across the bridge
from my heart to my self
