We fell from 
each other like 
leaves in the 
brisk Autumn wind
and scattered taking 
root somewhere else 
and now as
before our world 
has shrunk as
worlds often do 
finding us once 
again face to 
face but how 
cannot I just 
fold into you 
as once I 
did when we 
were just leaves

In a few 
hours you’ll be
here and there 
and everywhere all
at once whereas
before you were 
just there one 
grand open place 
of nowhere really 
just out there 
beyond my reach

A pair
of bookends
found together 
in store 
brought home 
and treasured
separated slowly 
by stories
of adventure 
and reflection 
of chaos
and peace
farther apart 
farther still 
then slowly 
as each 
fable wanes 
loses interest 
the closer 
we became 
until at
last together 
side by
side as
begun and 
as meant

Maybe now as years 
have passed we can 
finally see us as
the people we are 
and not as the 
people who we were 
or wanted to be 
maybe time has smoothed 
all the rough edges 
and maybe even made
us both better though 
maybe it was the 
rough edges that caught 
us together and now 
smooth might we simply 
glide past like icebergs 
in the open ocean 

Just one more 
be it kiss
or even poem
and back to 
sleep I go
until either or
maybe even each
awakens me again 
begging my attention 
for each knows
exactly how I 
bend to their 
wishes like a 
willow tree to 
the winds blow