Category: Boo

SafeHarbor (to You)

~ Harlan Didrickson

Awakened and sweating

Unable to shake

The demon ravens

From my minds

Canopy they roost

Hiding in dreams

Which linger like

The bitter taste

Of some pill

I am reminded

That my dreams

Can break through

My slumber like

Thieves’s flashlights searching

For my sanity

Finding they crush

Rip and steal

Leaving me empty

Hollow and weeping

Until I turn

And remember you

My one reality

Bringing me back

To my world

Once again safe

Unable to sleep

Watching you breathe

Slowing my heart

To beat yours

Peace at last

Comes to me

My one anchor

Amidst stormy seas

Mooring me you

In safe harbor

AhAwWeeee (for Boo)

~ Harlan Didrickson

It’s no surprise

That you returned

Like a dog

Out for run

Muddied and tired

Or like snowdrops

Popping out of

Snowy cold ground

You reappeared now

We never ended

Yet like a

Wet fuse we

Fizzled out instead

Of the Ahhhhh

We said Awwww

Struck again with

Time perhaps now

We fly skyward

Popping to Weeee

ItJustMight (to Boo)

~ Harlan Didrickson

And there then

A text came

I want to

See you because

You’re just you

Ugh how do

I say no

I shall go

Wondering what if

Any thing will

Happen like a

Master waving a

Stick I wait

For the toss

But what if

It doesn’t come

I’ll sit here

Happy knowing that

Maybe just maybe

It just might

AloneBed

~ Harlan Didrickson

And then now

The world asleep

The moon slides

Like coins in

A phone box

Behind late winters

Sullen clouds I

Awake to find

The bed warm

But you gone

Your cars paw

Prints scratched into

Nighttime snow fall

Trailing into darkness

And disappearing ghostedly

Into skeleton trees

As my bed

Now cools alone

Me (to Boo)

~ Harlan Didrickson

The best prison

Allows one thought

And that boo

You have brought

Me how we

Are not alike

How maybe oneday

You might understand

Until then understand

That I was

You 30 years

Ago before I

Was ever me