Say I miss you
Like the ground misses the drying healing effects
Like words that can make no sense
coming from these lips
Yet in between words never said
That thoughts of disjointed good times that wait
Like a child waits for Christmas
Or gift
Or happier days
And then it happens,
Out of nowhere
Here they come and this sudden joy,
Yes,,this bouyant laughter fills the spaces
Where emptiness sat like a teen at an exam,
Uncomfortable,
Knowing there was something more and the words spill
Down and rushing,
Like a broken dam that falls on the witless souls who thought
This was how it was going to be forever
Because nothing changes
And everything changes
And we can’t stop the flood gates
While Rome burns and The southern cities fall below
The drowning waters that could be stopped
With simple words like
You are here again
And if we drown,
We drown together
And I can smile knowing that the loneliness is held
At bay like the tiger under the big top
Simply fed on a hug and a steak
Or the knowing that there is no fear,
Only a soft hand
To stroke the molten fur.
I hold no image to these words, simply let them stand on their own disjointed merit and regaining we balance after being away a bit too long. Into the trap door I fall again….bearings straight and smiling.